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William Blake [1757-1827] English

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Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Mysticism, Romanticism, Slavery
Romanticism, Symbolism

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Art, Imagination, Religion, Science, Wisdom, Beauty, Forgiveness, Friendship, God, Love, Men, Truth, Business, Courage, Death, Gardening, Good, Great, Happiness, Inspirational, Intelligence, Knowledge, Money, Morning, Motivational, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Romantic, Sad, Space, Sympathy, Thankful, Thanksgiving, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.	Morning	85
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.	Thankful, Thanksgiving	101
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.	Friendship	103
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.	Motivational	104
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.	Love, Romantic	105
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.		106
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.	Great, Men	107
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.	Inspirational	108
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.	Art, Good, Science	109
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.	Art, Beauty	110
Exuberance is beauty.	Beauty	111
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.	Courage	112
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.	Gardening	113
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.	Wisdom	114
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.		115
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.		116
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.	Forgiveness, Religion	117
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.	God	118
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.	God, Men	119
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.		120
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.	Space	121
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.		122
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.	Religion	123
The true method of knowledge is experiment.	Knowledge	124
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.		125
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.		126
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.		201
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.	Imagination	202
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.		203
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.	Forgiveness	204
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.	Truth	205
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.	Art, Death, Science	206
What is now proved was once only imagined.	Imagination	207
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.		208
Lives in eternity's sun rise.		209
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.	Imagination, Nature	210
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!		211
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.	Art, Science	212
Every harlot was a virgin once.		213
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!	Politics, Religion	214
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.	Love	215
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.		216
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?	Sad	217
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.		218
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.		219
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.	Sympathy	220
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.		221
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.	Truth	222
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.	Wisdom	223
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.	Travel	224
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.	Happiness	225
One thought fills immensity.	Intelligence	226
The eye altering, alters all.		301
If a thing loves, it is infinite.		302
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.		303
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.		304
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.	Money	305
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.		306
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.		307
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.		308
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.		309
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.		310
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.	Business	311
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.		312
Opposition is true friendship.	Friendship	313
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.		314
To generalize is to be an idiot.		315
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.		316
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.		317
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.		318
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.		319
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.		320
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.		321
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.		322
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.	Poetry	323
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.		324
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.		325
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.	Wisdom	326
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.		401
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.		402

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