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
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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.
Opposition is true friendship.
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.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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.
The eye altering, alters all.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.