Blake, William

Biographer Nicholas Murray says: ‘He envied people like William Blake who had these wonderful visions of alternative realities.’

“A robin redbreast in a cage / Puts all heaven in a rage,” wrote William Blake.

William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination.

William Blake has said: “In order to know what is enough, it is necessary to know what is more than enough.”

There is little doubt that William Blake's hallucinations were voluntary.

It is a pity that William Blake could not teach us that once for all.

When William Blake flashed across the path of English polite society, society was confounded.

We always quote William Blake's poem to him when we see him prowling about our garden.