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William Blake
English
Poet
Born:
Nov 28
,
1757
Died:
Aug 12
,
1827
Art
His
Joy
Love
Man
World
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John Keats
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
Morning
Think
Eat
Noon
Act
Evening
Night
Sleep
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
Wrath
Horses
Wiser
Instruction
Tigers
Than
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
Thankful
Thanksgiving
Plentiful
Harvest
Bears
Receiver
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Bird
Own
Too
High
Wings
He
His
Soars
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Gardening
World
Flower
Wild
See
Hour
Hand
Infinity
Heaven
Grain
Grain Of Sand
Hold
Sand
Eternity
Your
Palm
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
Great
Great Things
Men
Mountains
Meet
Done
Things
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Man
Perception
Doors
Everything
Would
Were
Infinite
The Doors
Appear
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
Nature
Man
Eyes
Joy
Tears
Imagination
Tree
Others
Way
Deformity
Scarce
See
Some
Only
Itself
Green
Moves
Which
Stands
Ridicule
Thing
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
Life
Joy
Sun
Sun Rise
Destroy
Rise
Winged
Kisses
He
Himself
Does
Eternity
Flies
Who
Binds
Lives
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
Business
Will
Enslaved
System
Must
Another
Create
Mans
Reason
Compare
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendship
Man
Bird
Spider
Nest
Web
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
Life
Death
Art
Science
Tree
Tree Of Life
Life Science
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake
Time
Winter
Enjoy
Harvest
Seed
Learn
Teach
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Man
Water
Mind
Never
Like
Opinions
His
Reptiles
Breeds
Standing
Who
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
Moon
Doubt
Immediately
Sun
Out
Go
Should
Ever
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
You
Enough
Unless
More
Never
Know
Than
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
You
World
Will
Made
Up
Contradiction
Fiction
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
Love
God
Mercy
Too
Dwell
Dwelling
Where
Pity
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
Art
Naked
Beauty
Never
Without
Exist
Displayed
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Wisdom
Excess
Road
Leads
Palace
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
Happy
Joy
Old
Sweet
Shall
Name
Days
Call
Am
Befall
Thee
Two
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
Sad
Grief
Too
Kind
Relief
See
Seek
Sorrow
Another
Woe
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
Love
Hate
Energy
Progression
Attraction
Without
Existence
Love And Hate
Human
Human Existence
Repulsion
Reason
Necessary
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
Day
Bible
Black
White
Thou
Both
Day And Night
Read
Where
Night
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
William Blake
Noise
Joy
Stream
Our
Air
Laugh
Laughing
Laughs
Runs
Voice
Merry
Wit
Hill
Does
Green
Woods
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
Truth
Those
Tell
Know
Sake
Convincing
Who
Defending
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