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
Heaven is in a grain of sand.
The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Celebrate your existence!
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Gratitude is heaven itself.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.