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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Art and Artists

You say their pictures well painted be

VIII
YOU say their pictures well painted be,

And yet they are blockheads you all agree:

Thank God! I never was sent to school

To be flogg’d into following the style of a fool.

The errors of a wise man make your rule,

Rather than the perfections of a fool.