Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or writes:
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
—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)