/lit/ - Literature

A few selected from the Proverbs of Hell from Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell
>He whose face gives no light, shall never be a star
>Eternity is in love with the productions of time
>The busy bee has no time for sorrow
>The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure
>No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
>The most sublime act is to set another before you.
>If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise
>Shame is Prides cloke.
>Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
>The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
>What is now proved was once, only imagin’d.
>Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
>Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.
>He who has sufferd you to impose on him knows you.
>Expect poison from the standing water.
>Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!

Should I read Jerusalem or Four Zoas first? I've already read Blake's poems minus Poetical Sketches and his notebook poems.

>student, learning to be a teacher
>William Blake/Vergil
>Heraclitus/Lev Shestov
>don't read novels much, but I really enjoyed Gogol's Dead Souls
>Herodotus is really fun to read, but Thucydides is game changing
>Sophocles

The most based artist of all time

William Blake
Lev Shestov
Heraclitus
Vergil
Plato
>>20967501
Based beyond belief
>>20967231
>Blake
very based