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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.
William Blake -
I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
William Blake -
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake -
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
William Blake -
Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
William Blake -
He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
William Blake
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William Blake -
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
William Blake -
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
William Blake -
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake -
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
William Blake
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What has reason to do with the art of painting?
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
William Blake -
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
William Blake -
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
William Blake -
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
William Blake
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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
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Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake -
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
William Blake