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Quotes About Blake

Lovers running each to each Feel such timid dreams catch fire Blazing as they touch, Learn what love alone can teach: Happy on a tousled bed Praise Blake's acumen who said: 'One thing only we require Of each other; we must see In another's lineaments Gratified desire'; That is our humanity; Nothing else contents.
~ W.H. Auden
If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
~ Ray Bradbury
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
~ William Blake
Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.
~ Alex Rosa, Tryst
I tucked the feather into my bra, then glanced up at the sudden heavy silence. "What?"Blake grinned. "What else you got in there? Can I see?""Shut up, Blake!" said the rest of the boys.
~ Unknown
Son of a—Rora?" Blake slid out of the crater he'd just made in the wall. "Crap. What are you doing here?" He saw my wrist. "Handcuffs? I definitely want that story.
~ Unknown
Whatever this is…this impetus you have to help me right now, I know it's a lie. You're not kind, Blake, and I've had more than enough lies in my life. I don't want any more.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.
~ Patti Smith