William Blake Quotes About Genius
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
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Execution is the chariot of genius.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
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