Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or writes:
“Farewell green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)