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
Exhuberance is Beauty.
If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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.