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
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.