William Blake Quotes

“He would also, one suspects, have enjoyed the irony that his work now hangs in the world's greatest museums while Flaxman is barely remembered.”
― Hourly History, William Blake: A Life from Beginning to End

“I am made to sow the thistle for wheat, the nettle for a nourishing dainty / I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree / I have chosen the serpent for a councillor, & the dog for a schoolmaster to my children / I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale / And I have caused the earthworm to beg from door to door.”
― Hourly History, William Blake: A Life from Beginning to End

“Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I for one do not agree.”
― Hourly History, William Blake: A Life from Beginning to End

“Whether Blake was directly challenging that idea or, in using the same language of light and dark, inadvertently reinforcing it, remains a matter of debate. Most readers have taken him at his best and assumed he meant to challenge it.”
― Hourly History, William Blake: A Life from Beginning to End