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Blake, William
1757-1827
British poet and artist whose paintings and poetic works, such as _Songs of Innocence_ (1789) and _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ (c. 1790), have a mystical, visionary quality.

Creativity

I must create a system or be enslaved by another
  man's;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to
  create.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Los, in Jerusalem, ch. 1, plate 10.

Cunning

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 9 (1790-93).

Crime and Criminals

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief's.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Letter, 23 Aug. 1799 (published in The Letters of William Blake, 1956).

Altruism

He who would do good to another must do it in
  Minute Particulars:
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel,
  hypocrite, and flatterer,
For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely
  organized Particulars.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Jerusalem, ch. 3, Plate 55 (1804-20; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

Bureaucracy

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be true.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Annotations to Bishop Watson, An Apology for the Bible in a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine (1798; published in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

Business and Commerce

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Public address, c. 1810, in Blake's notebook (published in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

Excess

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 7, "Proverbs of Hell" (1790-93; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

Eternity

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 7, "Proverbs of Hell" (1790-93; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

The Golden Rule

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 9, "Proverbs of Hell" (1790).

History

Acts themselves alone are history…. 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 (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. A Descriptive Catalogue, no. 5 (1809; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

Physics

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Auguries of Innocence, in Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1808; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957).

"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature."

- William Blake

From a William Blake quote "If the doors of perception were to be cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite". The Doors were originally called the Psychedelic Rangers.

• TAZ: Jul 29, 00 ; _The Doors of Perception_ (open air); Germany
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• 604 track _Dorset Perception_ MP3 (192k)  by Shpongle off of _Tales Of The Inexpressable_ CD on Twisted(2001)
sample:
• Desafina(do)

Canto mi amor
Tu es fixe, es muito bom.
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