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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
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Without contraries there is no progression.
William Blake
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
William Blake -
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
William Blake -
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake -
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake -
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
William Blake
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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
William Blake -
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake -
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
William Blake -
To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.
William Blake
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
William Blake -
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake -
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
William Blake -
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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Art degraded, Imagination denied.
William Blake -
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
William Blake -
Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake -
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake -
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!
William Blake