Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or claimed:
“My silks and fine array,
My smiles and languish’d air,
By Love are driv’n away;
And mournful lean Despair
Brings me yew to deck my grave:
Such end true lovers have.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)