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
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
Energy is eternal delight.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
The cut worm forgives the plow.
General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
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.