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Blake sets the line as a motto in a polemic where energy and restraint are both treated as virtues of the artist. It is one of the shortest and most quoted statements in his work, and it names delight rather than discipline.
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.