Poetry Quote by William Blake — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A truth that's told with bad intent”

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“But to go to school in a summer morn,”

“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“He who binds to himself a joy”

“No drowning man can know which drop”

“The thing I admire most”

“Safe Despair it is that raves—”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished because undisturbed: and this is an end unattainable by the novel. Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem; but undue length is yet more to be avoided.”