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
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
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.
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.