William Blake
1757-1827
British Painter, Poet, Mystic, Engraver and Printmaker
Influences: Gothic Art, Manuscript Illumination, Giotto Bondone, Raphael, Michelangelo, Hieronymus Bosch, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Albert Dürer
Education - At the age of 14 apprenticed to an engraver for seven years. Attended the Royal Academy in London.
Cause of Death - Old age, he was 69
Mediums - watercolors, watercolored relief etchings, engraving
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William
Blake Quotations
To see a World in a Grain of
Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild
Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of
your hand
And Eternity in an hour. --
William Blake Quote
Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, Engrav...
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There are two worlds, a
spiritual world where angels
and spirits are, and a
natural world where men are.
-- William Blake Quote
The Sick Rose, from Songs...
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My mother bore me in the
southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my
soul is white. -- William
Blake Quote
As I was walking among the
fires of Hell,
Divine Comedy: Pity
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delighted with the
enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like
torment and insanity.
-- William Blake Quote
Satan Arousing the Rebel ...
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As the air to a bird or the
sea to a fish, so is
contempt to the
contemptible. As the
caterpillar chooses the
fairest leaves to lay her
eggs on, so the priest lays
his curse on the fairest
joys. -- William Blake Quote
Satan, Sin, and Death: Sa...
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A truth that's told with bad
intent, Beats all the lies
you can invent. -- William
Blake Quote
Songs of Innocence and Ex...
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Always be ready to speak
your mind and a base man
will avoid you. -- William
Blake Quote
The First Book of Urizen,...
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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. --
-- William Blake Quote
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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I must create a system, or
be enslaved by another
man's. -- William Blake
Quote
Jerusalem the Emanation o...
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Dip him in the river who
loves water. -- William
Blake
Songs of Innocence, Title...
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Innocence dwells with
Wisdom, but never with
Ignorance. -- William Blake
Jacob's Ladder
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If the doors of perception
were cleansed everything
would appear to man as it
is, infinite. --- William
Blake
The Judgement of Adam and...
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It is easier to forgive an
enemy than to forgive a
friend.-- William Blake
Love seeketh not itself to
please, Nor for itself hath
any care, But for another
gives its ease, And builds a
Heaven in Hell's dispite.--
William Blake
The Judgement of Adam and...
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Europe Supported by Afric...
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No bird soars too high if he
soars with his own wings.--
William Blake
The Resurrection: the Ang...
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He who binds to himself a
joy Does the winged life
destroy; But he who kisses
the joy as it flies Lives in
eternity's sun rise.--
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Last Judgement
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When thou seest an eagle,
thou seest a portion of
genius; lift up thy head! --
William Blake
Jacob's Ladder
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As I was walking among the
fires of Hell,
delighted with the
enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like
torment and insanity. --
William Blake
The Resurrection: the Ang...
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Those who restrain desire,
do so because theirs is weak
enough to be restrained. --
William Blake Quote
The Flight of Moloch
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He who binds to himself a
joy
Does the winged life
destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as
it files
Lives in eternity's sun
rise. -- William Blake Quote
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The tree which moves some to
tears of joy is in the eyes
of others only a green thing
that stands in the way. Some
see nature all ridicule and
deformity...and some scarce
see nature at all. But to
the eyes of the man of
imagination, nature is
imagination itself. --
William Blake
The Resurrection: the Ang...
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A truth that's told with bad
intent, Beats all the lies
you can invent. -- --
William Blake
Jacob's Ladder
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Great things are done when
men and mountains meet. --
-- William Blake
Europe Supported by Afric...
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He who desires but acts not,
breeds pestilence. --
William Blake
The Flight of Moloch
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If the doors of perception
were cleansed everything
would appear to man as it
is, infinite. - William
Blake
The Judgement of Adam and...
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In the universe, there are
things that are known, and
things that are unknown, and
in between, there are
doors.- William Blake
Quotation
Last Judgement
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No bird soars too high if he
soars with his own wings. -
William Blake
The Resurrection: the Ang...
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What is now proved was once
only imagined. - William Blake
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Want of money and the
distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving,
for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must
therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is
the miser's passion, not the thief's. - William Blake
The Flight of Moloch
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A truth that's told with bad
intent beats all the lies
you can invent.
- William Blake
Last Judgement
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It is easier to forgive an
enemy than to forgive a
friend.- William Blake
Quotation
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath
die end. I was angry with my
foe; I told it not, my wrath
did grow. - William Blake
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Last Judgement
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O Autumn, laden with fruit,
and stained With the blood
of the grape, pass not, but
sit Beneath my shady roof;
there thou mayest rest And
tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year
shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. - William
Blake
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft
desires I can trace, Secret
joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
- William Blake
Jacob's Ladder
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The fool who persists in his
folly will become wise. -
William Blake
The Judgement of Adam and...
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The weak in courage is
strong in cunning.- William
Blake Quotation
But to go to school in a
summer morn, Oh, it drives
all joy away! Under a cruel
eye outworn, The little ones
spend the day-- In sighing
and dismay. - William Blake
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Education makes a people
easy to lead, but difficult
to drive; easy to govern,
but impossible to enslave. -
William Blake Quotation
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To see the world in a grain
of sand, and to see heaven
in a wild flower, hold
infinity in the palm of your
hands, and eternity in an
hour. -- William Blake
Quotation
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For where'er the sun does
shine,
And where'er the rain does
fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
- William Blake
Last Judgement
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Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does
move Silently, invisibly. -
William Blake Quotation
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous
hand? - William Blake
Songs of Innocence, Title...
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Beneath them sit the aged
men, wise guardians of the
poor;
Then cherish pity, lest you
drive an angel from your
door.
- William Blake
Jacob's Ladder
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When I from black and he
from white cloud free,
And round the tent of
Godlike lambs we joy,
I'll shade him from the heat
till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our
father's knee;
And then I'll stand and
stroke his silver hair,
And be like him, and he will
then love me. - William
Blake Quotation
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The hum of multitudes was
there, but multitudes of
lambs,
Thousands of little boys and
girls raising their innocent
hands."
- William Blake
Songs of Innocence, Title...
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Prisons are built with
stones of Law, brothels with
bricks of Religion. And we
are put on earth a little
space. - William Blake
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That we may learn to bear
the beams of love. - William Blake
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My silks and fine array,
My smiles and languish'd
air,
By Love are driv'n away;
And mournful lean Despair
Brings me yew to deck my
grave:
Such end true lovers have.-
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The tigers of wrath are
wiser than the horses of
instruction. - William Blake
Quotation
Jerusalem the Emanation o...
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Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret
smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.-
William Blake
Songs of Innocence, Title...
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Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And jealousy a Human Face;
Terror the Human Form
Divine,
And secrecy the Human Dress.
- William Blake
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O the cunning wiles that
creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth
wake,
Then the dreadful night
shall break.
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of
fear,
In every voice, in every
ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I
hear."
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Jerusalem the Emanation o...
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Acts themselves alone are
history.... Tell me the
acts, O historian, and leave
me to reason upon them as I
please; away with your
reasoning and your rubbish!
All that is not action is
not worth reading. - William
Blake Quotation
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity
dwell There God is dwelling
too."
-- William Blake
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Truth that's told with bad
intent Beats all the Lies
you can invent.
-- William Blake
Mutual forgiveness of each
vice. Such are the Gates of
Paradise."
-- William Blake
Songs of Innocence, Title...
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I was angry with my friend I
told my wrath, my wrath did
end. I was angry with my
foe: I told it not, my wrath
did grow. - William Blake
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He's a Blockhead who wants a
proof of what he Can't
Percieve And he's a Fool who
tries to make such a
Blockhead believe."
- William Blake Quotation
When the doors of perception
are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. - William
Blake
The Judgement of Adam and...
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It is not because angels are
holier than men or devils
that makes them angels, but
because they do not expect
holiness from one another,
but from God only. - William
Blake Quotation
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Love seeketh not itself to
please, Nor for itself hath
any care, But for another
gives its ease, And builds a
Heaven in Hell's despair. -
William Blake
The Flight of Moloch
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It is easier to forgive an
enemy than to forgive a friend.-- - William Blake
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I myself do nothing. The
Holy Spirit accomplishes all
through me.
- William Blake
Jerusalem the Emanation o...
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When the doors of perception
are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. -- -
William Blake
Always be ready to
speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.-- - William Blake
Illustration for the Book...
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Energy is eternal delight. -
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To create a little flower is
the labour of ages. -
William Blake Quotation
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Those who restrain desire,
do so because theirs is weak
enough to be restrained. -
William Blake
Jerusalem the Emanation o...
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I see every thing I paint in
this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a
guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of
money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. -
William Blake
Last Judgement
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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. -- William Blake
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The Tyger
Tyger, Tyger. burning
bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful
symmetry?
In what distant deeps or
skies.
Burnt the fire of thine
eyes?
On what wings dare he
aspire?
What the hand, dare seize
the fire?
And what shoulder, or what
art,
Could twist the sinews of
thy heart?
And when thy heart began to
beat.
What dread hand? & what
dread feet?
What the hammer? What the
chain,
In what furnace was thy
brain?
What the anvil? what dread
grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors
clasp?
When the stars threw down
their spears
And water'd heaven with
their tears:
Did he smile his work to
see?
Did he who made the Lamb
make thee?
Tyger, Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry? -- William Blake
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Jacob's Ladder
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