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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
William Blake -
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake -
The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
William Blake -
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake -
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
William Blake
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
William Blake -
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake -
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
William Blake -
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
William Blake -
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
William Blake
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All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake -
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake -
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
William Blake -
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
William Blake -
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
William Blake -
Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
William Blake -
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake