William Blake
William Blake
William Blakewas 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. His prophetic works have been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1757
Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy.
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded; / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, / And all his pictures faded.
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person,
I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.
Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression
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.