William Blake
William Blake
William Blakewas an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic works have been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1757
His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang noose at the end
Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily.
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite
He who would see the Divinity must see him in his Children.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer
He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.
I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision.