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William Blake Quotes - Page 6

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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Attention

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Genius, Poetic

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

Imagination, Vision, Poet

William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.665, Univ of California Press

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Wisdom, Work, Pride

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Respect, Art, Men

William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Wise, Photography, Teaching

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

Government, Law, Lions

"William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose".

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

Sweet, Children, Reading

'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Little Girl Lost'

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Wisdom, Time, Artist

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

The eye altering, alters all.

Eye, Artist, Awareness

The Mental Traveller

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

Inspirational, Motivational, Pests

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

Dog, Ruins, Robin Redbreast

"Auguries of Innocence" l. 9 (ca. 1803)

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

Birthday, Mother, Father

'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Real, Writing, Artist

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

Foxes, Traps

William Blake (2013). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)”, p.52, e-artnow

One thought fills immensity.

Thinking, Ideas, Immensity

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Wise, Men, Errors

'MS Note-Book' p. 42

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Affliction, Easy, Easy Things

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.249, Pearson Education

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Passion, Reality, Men

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Men, Deities, Breasts

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.134, Pearson Education

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

Animal, White, Bird

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

Men, Slave

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

Heart, Iron, Faces

William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

Doe, Persuasion, Firm

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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