The eye altering, alters all.

William Blake


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O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

William Blake

Tags: innocence virtue corruption destruction sickness seduction rose worm innocence-lost



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And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

William Blake


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What the hammer? What the Chains?
In what furnace was thy brain?
Where the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

William Blake


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A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

William Blake

Tags: inspirational animal-welfare



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Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when
I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent

William Blake

Tags: solitude



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Without Contraries is no Progression.

William Blake


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In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.

William Blake


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He who replies to words of doubt
doth put the light of knowledge out.

William Blake

Tags: science doubt knowledge



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The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration

William Blake

Tags: humor art snark blake reynolds art-feuds



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