William Blake Quotes
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 564.
Many ministers and others looked at the migration of the rural population to the cities as a national issue of morality and decay. They fought a losing battle. See {631005} for his puzzlement and its details.
L. P. Jacks. This lecture was given well before the development of the atomic bomb, after which many politicians and intellectual leaders picked up on this theme. Then each generation since has echoed it.
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
