The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake
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WILLIAM BLAKE That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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VOLTAIRE Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.
THOMAS MANN Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives
GEORGE HERBERT I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can ...
ALAN JACOBS A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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GEORGE SHEEHAN The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
BIBLE Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. ...
JIM MORRISON SOME ARE BORN TO SWEET DELIGHT
SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT
WILLIAM BLAKE Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER I’ve kept it inside this long.
I can do it for a lot longer.
Because I’m strong. Becau...
SARA WOLF Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN What we ought be, we can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotard...
BRADLEY CHICHO Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
BIBLE Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for w...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet D...
WILLIAM BLAKE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense i...
C. JOYBELL C. I dream of the purple glory
Of the roseate mountain-height
And the sweet-to-remember story WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Isn't it enough that my daughter was murdered? Nobody should be defiled.
JACQUE MACDONALD Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
ROBERT BLAIR The essences of our soul were a breath in God before they became a living soul, they lived in God be...
WILLIAM LAW Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for y...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Proverbs 13:19
BIBLE In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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LAURELL K. HAMILTON Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF food should not only satisfy hunger, it should feed the soul, nourish the body and delight the sense...
KARISTA BENNETT Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;...
BIBLE If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies...
N.T. WRIGHT When an indictment is delivered at the front door of the White House, the Office of the President is...
CHRISTOPHER WOLF Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with...
THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
STEFAN EMUNDS Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Never find your delight in another's misfortune
PUBLILIUS SYRUS However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful...
MAXIM GORKY Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an ...
JONATHAN EDWARDS When you feel at sea in an abyss of emotions, reconnecting to the beauty of your soul can be difficu...
LORRAINE NILON I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
DENNIS ALEJO Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN he can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
PENELOPE CRUZ Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Bur...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.
N. K. DAVID Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both...
BEN OKRI Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both t...
NORA ROBERTS Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head
MUNIA KHAN Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
BIBLE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring s...
ANDREW MARVELL Soul can only be reached with soul and only soul can grant you stay, otherwise it's wind dusting the...
MARIANA FULGER It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
BIBLE I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any jour...
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any jour...
CHARLES TURNER The favorite is always the No. 1. I can win. Blake can win. But the favorite is the No. 1.
RAFAEL NADAL Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used t...
RENE REDZEPI William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN This," Adrian said grandly, "is Blake Lazar."
"It's nice to meet you," she said.
Blake smi...
RICHELLE MEAD My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
JACK KEROUAC Blake has come a long way, and I think he can go farther.
STEVE SPURRIER His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.
JANDY NELSON Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. Everything can't be sweet. Everything can't be peaches and cream.
DRAYMOND GREEN Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would r...
THOMAS BRACKETT REED The curse of men can't make me defiled. I defile myself if I curse men by intention.
TOBA BETA [Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
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which t...
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And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Dee...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
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WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE