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
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.
I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision.
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal EyesOf Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into EternityEver expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite
Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divine,Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.
Am not IA fly like thee?Or art not thouA man like me?
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.
I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.