William Blake Quotes - Page 16

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• Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

  William Blake

  Together, Steps, Tools

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• Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. 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

  Reading, Rubbish, Action

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.579, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

  William Blake

  Cutting, Wings, Heaven

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Routledge

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• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

  William Blake

  Passion, Men, Heaven

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education

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• Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

  William Blake

  Angel, Wings, Terrible

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.436, Univ of California Press

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• Father, O father! what do we here
  In this land of unbelief and fear?

  William Blake

  Fear, Father, Land

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.90, Routledge

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• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  William Blake

  Eye, Criticism, Shadow

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press

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• Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

  William Blake

  Mother, House, Healthy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

  William Blake

  Lying, Eye, Angel

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.153, Pearson Education

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• The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

  William Blake

  Eye, Self, Whales

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• To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Casts

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

  William Blake

  Drawing, Masters, Painter

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

  William Blake

  Wall, Wind, Giving

  "I give you the end of a golden string" (1815)

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• To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
  But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

  William Blake

  Life, Pockets, Chloe

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

  William Blake

  Marriage, Solitude, Earth

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• I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Judaism, Jew

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (f) l. 1

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• The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Fool, Holy

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.233, Psychology Press

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

  William Blake

  Drunk, Fool, Paint

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.641, Pearson Education

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• Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Humanity

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.908, Pearson Education

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• How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

  William Blake

  Love, Summer, Sweet

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.45, Pearson Education

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• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
  Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  William Blake

  Boys, Desire, Bed

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.120, Pearson Education

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Agreement, Revolution, England

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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