i12bent: Poet, painter and mystic William Blake was born Nov. 28, 1757 (d. 1827). Considered a madman by his contemporaries his work received little attention while he was alive and for decades after his death. To Symbolists and neo-Romantics, however, Blake is a transcendent figure… “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Above: Portrait replica by John Linnell, 1861 (1821) - watercolour (NPG, London)

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Poet, painter and mystic William Blake was born Nov. 28, 1757 (d. 1827). Considered a madman by his contemporaries his work received little attention while he was alive and for decades after his death. To Symbolists and neo-Romantics, however, Blake is a transcendent figure…

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Above: Portrait replica by John Linnell, 1861 (1821) - watercolour (NPG, London)

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