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This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.


William Blake

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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...
WILLIAM BLAKE His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
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 Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?
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