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
O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress
And we are put on earth a little spaceThat we may learn to bear the beams of love.
Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
Some will say,Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer,God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
see the world in a grain of sand ... And eternity in an hour.
Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.
Every year we are growing by leaps and bounds.
Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
A man's worst enemies are thoseOf his own house and family;And he who makes his law a curse,By his own law shall surely die.