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Charles Plymell
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Norman O. Brown
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Frank Stanford
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Allen Ginsberg
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Maurice Sendak
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W. B. Yeats
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Jim Jarmusch
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Patti Smith
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Michael Pendragon
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Emily Dickinson
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Northrop Frye
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Jacques Hamelink
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Ben Okri
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Blakey Vermeule
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Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Philip Pullman
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G. K. Chesterton
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Adrian Mitchell
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George Richmond
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Clive Barker
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Jorge Luis Borges
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C. S. Lewis
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Ted Hughes
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Sylvia Plath
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E. P. Thompson
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Terence McKenna
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Tracy Chevalier
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Kahlil Gibran
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Hart Crane
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Alan Moore
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Bob Dylan
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Richard Misrach
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W. S. Merwin
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Jim Morrison
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Samuel Palmer
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Aldous Huxley
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Visionary Heads
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Agony in the Garden
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Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
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The Number of the Beast is 666
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The Night of Enitharmon's Joy
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The Ancient of Days
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Isaac Newton
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The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea
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The Ghost of a Flea
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The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun
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Pity
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A Vision of the Last Judgment
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The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne
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The Creator
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Peers
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The Lamb
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A Divine Image
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Holy Thursday
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Songs of Innocence
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William Blake
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Europe a Prophecy
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The Chimney Sweeper
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Ah! Sun-flower
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The Tyger
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The Human Abstract
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And did those feet in ancient time
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The Shepherd
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The Lamb
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The Little Girl Found
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Holy Thursday
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Visions of the Daughters of Albion
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The Blossom
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The Clod and the Pebble
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Introduction
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The Little Girl Lost
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The French Revolution
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Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion
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The Book of Ahania
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Earth's Answer
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A Little Girl Lost
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Laughing Song
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Descriptive Catalogue
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Never seek to tell thy love
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The Little Boy Lost
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The Little Vagabond
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The Divine Image
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The Echoing Green
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The Angel
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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America a Prophecy
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The Sick Rose
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The Lilly
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The Garden of Love
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The Book of Urizen
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Night
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Milton: A Poem in Two Books
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Job
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Nurse's Song
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Spring
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London
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My Pretty Rose Tree
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The Song of Los
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Blake
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Tiriel
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To Tirzah
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The Little Black Boy
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Poetical sketches
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The Book of Thel
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Soho
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Place of death
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Soho
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Bunhill Fields
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Dante Alighieri
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Jakob Böhme
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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John Milton
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Ben Jonson
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Romanticism
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English people
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Moravian Church
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Book editions published
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Songs of innocence and experience.
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Quotations
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
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Quotations
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
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Quotations
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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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.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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Quotations
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One thought fills immensity.
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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What is now proved was only once imagined.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
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Quotations
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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Quotations
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Expect poison from standing water.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Quotations
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To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Quotations
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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Quotations
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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
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Quotations
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Quotations
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
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Quotations
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
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Quotations
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Quotations
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Quotations
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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School or Movement
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Romanticism
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Profession
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Poet
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Profession
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Artist
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Profession
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Printmaker
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Profession
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Visual Artist
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Fictional Characters Created
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Hela
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Fictional Characters Created
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Tiriel
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Fictional Characters Created
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Har
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Parents
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James Blake
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Parents
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Catherine Wright Armitage Blake
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Art Series
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The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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Art Forms
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Painting
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Film Story Credits
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Tiger
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Education
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part V: Vocalise
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Lyrics Written
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Dog Is Life / Jerusalem
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part I: Earth's Answer
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part III: On Another's Sorrow
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Lyrics Written
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The Voice of the Bard
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: III. The Piper
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part I: Introduction
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence: Nurse's Song
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Lyrics Written
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De kleine schoorsteenveger (The chimneysweeper)
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Lyrics Written
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The Lamb
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part IV: The Lilly
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Lyrics Written
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Holy Thursday
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part VI: A Divine Image
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part I: Infant Joy
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Lyrics Written
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Mad Song
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part IV: My Pretty Rose Tree
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part I: Introduction
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Songs of Experience, Part III: The Clod and the Pebble
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: IV. London
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Lyrics Written
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The Tyger
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Lyrics Written
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Jerusalem
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part III: Nocturne
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Lyrics Written
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Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part VI: Interlude: Voces Clamandae
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Lyrics Written
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Petit vagabond
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Lyrics Written
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Lullaby
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: VII. Ah, Sun-flower!
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: VIII. Cruelty has a human heart
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Lyrics Written
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A Poison Tree
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part VI: The School-Boy
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: X. Eternity
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Lyrics Written
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Hear the Voice
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence: The Blossom
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: II. A Poison Tree
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Lyrics Written
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Tyger
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence: The Shepard
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part III: The Little Vagabond
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Lyrics Written
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Jerusalem
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: I. Infant Joy
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part III: Night
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Lyrics Written
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A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table: 4. Holy Thursday
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Lyrics Written
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Kindermeidslied (Nurse's Song)
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Lyrics Written
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A Poison Tree
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Lyrics Written
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London
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part VI: The Chimney Sweeper
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Lyrics Written
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Smile
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part III: Coda
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Innocence, Part I: The Ecchoing Green
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: IX. The Divine Image
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Lyrics Written
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The Tiger
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Lyrics Written
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Little Fly
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Lyrics Written
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Poison Tree
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Lyrics Written
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Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part III: To Tirzah
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part IV: Ah! Sun-Flower
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part I: Interlude
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Lyrics Written
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Songs of Experience, Part V: Infant Sorrow
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: V. The Lamb
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Lyrics Written
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn, & Strings, Op. 31: IV. Elegy
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Lyrics Written
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Ten Blake Songs: VI. The Shepherd
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Country of nationality
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United Kingdom
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Works Composed
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Dog Is Life / Jerusalem
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/kp_lw/philosophy_influencee/influencer
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Jakob Böhme
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