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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Los, in Jerusalem, ch. 1, plate 10. |
"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). |
"Come higher, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold:"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From Poetical Sketches. Mad Song (l. 3-4). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books. |
"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). |
"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. |
"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). |
"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. |
"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. |
"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."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Manuscript Notebook (1793), no. 46, "The Question Answered," published in Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). |
"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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