“I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; / I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.”

— William Blake, Jerusalem, c. 1803-1820, plate 10

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1757 – 1827

English poet and artist, author of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience".

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