English poet & painter (1757-1827)
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Love to Faults", Poems from Blake's Notebook
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Annotations to Lavater
Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Blake's Exhibition and Catalogue of 1809, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures: Number V. The Ancient Britons
They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Annotations to Lavater