Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.


William Blake

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Feeling your warmth and touch; fills the desire within my bones.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE
His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE
And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE
There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
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...
WILLIAM BLAKE