English - Poet | November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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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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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
LoveTimeEternityProductions
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
SoulSweetNeverDelight
Every harlot was a virgin once.
OnceEveryHarlot
One thought fills immensity.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
LifeEverythingDelightsHolyLives
What is now proved was once only imagined.
ImaginationNowOnlyOnceProved
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
ImaginationShadowWorldUniverse
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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