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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.


William Blake

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON It's black tie and ball gowns. This is very red carpet.
ALICE GOLEMBO I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind...
EUDORA WELTY Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely conn...
RASHEED OGUNLARU I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Blake is getting himself back in the swing. His last two rounds have been 39 and 38. Michael struggl...
ALEX ADAMS My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
LANGSTON HUGHES Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that Willia...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their...
ALLAN RAY My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have i...
MALCOLM X Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infan...
WILLIAM BLAKE I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, bu...
HUMA ABEDIN Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires...
ANNE FADIMAN They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
HUBERT MARTIN We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON Lawyers' gowns are lined with the willfulness of their clients
PROVERB In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA MOST DAYS MY LIFE
CAN BE SUMMED UP IN
MOVIE QUOTES
AND
HIP HOP AND R&B LYR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS . . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,
My youthful desires have been burnt with the year...
HAORAN MENG The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE Many trees were pulled out of the ground with their roots crying for water.”
The lake was al...
MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA souls connect
&
souls tie.
intertwine humbly and
with care.
ALEXANDRA ELLE And no one will kill Bill.”

I laughed softly as I unbuckled the seat belt. “Blake. Hi...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American hi...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN They had black masks over their faces and full black gear, with belts and ammo around their waists. ...
BOB MCKIBBEN To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless...
CARRIE FISHER The girls just went out and did their thing. They went out in all three rounds, did a great job, nai...
DEB GAINES These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: GAUTAMA BUDDHA Stop walking with a ‘calendar’. It’s capable of ruining your fate,
by showing you the da...
SUJIT LALWANI Lunch started off tense after our heated moment. Thank goodness for Blake. Kai was warm toward him, ...
WENDY HIGGINS, SWEET PERIL Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
EMMA CAMERON & may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platfor...
L V HALL In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interi...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Those who wear black and blue, want to blacken the blue sky with soot and smoke.
APURVA GAGLANI I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled wi...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing ...
THEODORE ROETHKE A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With ...
ALISON CROGGON death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
PERRY FARRELL Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
B...
LILY AMIS Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in thei...
ERIN HANSON My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland &...
LOUIS MACNEICE I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN They were Catholic, my lovers,

All in an access of crossing themselves,

Partic...
SHAY CAROLINE We had 10 girls in black dresses walking around with bow ties on. Guerrilla marketing.
DHANI JONES what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What we were able to do is compare the binding site of both the viral RNA and the cells' cap binding...
EVA NOGALES They were misrepresenting to consumers that they would file the (reaffirmation) agreements in courts...
HOWARD SHAPIRO i
let myself
know
that my life
doesn't
have to be over
just because AMANDA LOVELACE My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
ISABEL ALLENDE I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN i am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God<...
SAUL WILLIAMS Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
T...
JOHN KEATS Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace) <...
E.E. CUMMINGS We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men ar...
SHERRILYN KENYON I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I h...
SARA TEASDALE Subduing their desires, they merge with the True One; they see in their minds that everyone comes an...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB i am an
earthquake
& dance
most heavily
upon all my
faults.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stan...
A.G. STARLING The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
ROBERT FRANK Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
KAMI GARCIA Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,
Sooner than I will live with you.
Fish will come w...
PETER S. BEAGLE There is such a need for the gowns we smock.
AMY JOHNSON It used to be that wedding gowns were primarily white.
CAMI HESTER When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted som...
AMANDA LOVELACE Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They’re my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. ...
KAITLIN BEVIS Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS She had the prettiest eyes
& prettiest smile with
Wounds on her heart and
bruis...
TANYA GAMBHIR Let these men sing out their songs,
they've been walking all day long,
all their fortune's...
ROMAN PAYNE My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very sm...
PHILLIPA SOO But now that I’m scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I re...
PHIL VOLATILE As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which t...
WILLIAM BLAKE My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to ...
JOHN WOOLMAN Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
BIBLE MOUNT PLAASMOORDE
If ever you visit South Africa
And do
Leave the brilliant beaches o...
DAUGLAS DAUGLAS A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
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And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
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