When Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded; / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, / And all his pictures faded.
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JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
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RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
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JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.
“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
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JENNIFER NIVEN The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and be...
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ERIC DUBIN The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
STEVEN WRIGHT The King of Queens.
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ABIGAIL GEORGE Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON [James, 40, played a bumbling suitor in the film] Hitch ... The King of Queens.
WILL SMITH The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was ...
ROBERT DALLEK Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
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Dust into...
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GREG AUSTIN They're all faded from all the light we have in here, but I kind of like the color they faded to.
ANGELA CUMMINGS Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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DAN JENKINS Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.
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MARA WILSON What the king found was that not all agencies were in line with his program, ... One arm was working...
KING ABDULLAH Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
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GARY F EVANS... Nothing hurts you unless you let it.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and h...
HOWARD SHORE Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
PHYLLIS DILLER He was very emotional when he first saw Blake in the hospital. But now he helps out with his brother...
SHERRY SCARBERRY The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
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JOHN GREEN She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Our trade opens to all the world.
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DENNIS POTTER Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi...
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BIBLE Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only follo...
ROD STEWART But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
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Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
He gave t...
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should sus...
WILLIAM BLAKE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy th...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath die end.
I was angry with my foe;
...
WILLIAM BLAKE Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.
WILLIAM BLAKE God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
Wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to en...
WILLIAM BLAKE But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
...
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the pa...
WILLIAM BLAKE To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money...
WILLIAM BLAKE I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human d...
WILLIAM BLAKE Exuberance is beauty.
WILLIAM BLAKE Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as a...
WILLIAM BLAKE Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a...
WILLIAM BLAKE Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
WILLIAM BLAKE Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi...
WILLIAM BLAKE Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and po...
WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it no...
WILLIAM BLAKE As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an i...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are bor...
WILLIAM BLAKE Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
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 I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a ...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For ...
WILLIAM BLAKE What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...
WILLIAM BLAKE The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
WILLIAM BLAKE You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE Every harlot was a virgin once.
WILLIAM BLAKE What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful conseq...
WILLIAM BLAKE Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn...
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE Opposition is true friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
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 The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business i...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against t...
WILLIAM BLAKE You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue...
WILLIAM BLAKE Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little ...
WILLIAM BLAKE O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath...
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE As a man is, so he sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I lov...
WILLIAM BLAKE The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may wel...
WILLIAM BLAKE Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...
WILLIAM BLAKE Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
WILLIAM BLAKE I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
WILLIAM BLAKE The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the...
WILLIAM BLAKE A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...
WILLIAM BLAKE The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand...
WILLIAM BLAKE The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...
WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe: WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Li...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away...
WILLIAM BLAKE When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
WILLIAM BLAKE You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtu...
WILLIAM BLAKE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which t...
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its e...
WILLIAM BLAKE Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
WILLIAM BLAKE I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sa...
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one ca...
WILLIAM BLAKE Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm o...
WILLIAM BLAKE The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE One thought fills immensity.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
The...
WILLIAM BLAKE Shame is pride's cloak.
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