Quotes

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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's;
I will not reason and compare:mu business is to create."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Los, in Jerusalem, ch. 1, plate 10.[/COLOR]

 

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"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 6, "The Voice of the Devil," (c. 1793), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).

 

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"Come higher, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold:"

 

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"Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 8, "Proverbs of Hell," (c. 1793), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).

 

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"Like a fiend in a cloud
With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
And with night will go;"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From Poetical Sketches. Mad Song (l. 17-20). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "Proverbs of Hell," plate 8 (1790-1793).

 

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"For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From Poetical Sketches. Mad Song (l. 23-24). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"I traveld thro' a Land of Men
A Land of Men & Women too,
And heard & saw such dreadful things
As cold Earth wanderers never knew."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of Gratified Desire."

 

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"And she grows young as he grows old."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 20). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books

 

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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

 

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"For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 62-64). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"His little throat labours with inspiration, every feather
On throat and breast and wings vibrates with the effluence Divine."

 

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"we Reap in joy the fruit
Which we in bitter tears did sow."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 7-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"The generations of men run on in the tide of time,
But leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever & ever."

 

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"And if the Babe is born a Boy
He's given to a Woman Old,
Who nails him down upon a rock
Catches his shrieks in cups of gold."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 9-12). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Milton (Plate 1, l. 7-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"The lark sitting upon his earthy bed, just as the morn
Appears, listens silent, then springing from the waving Corn-field,
loud
He leads the Choir of Day—"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Milton (Plate 30, l. 29-31). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Tiger (l. 19-20). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Bring me my Bow of burning gold: http://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/quotations/page-7/#
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Milton (Plate 1, l. 9-16). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.