Quote#Politics & Power
For a tear is an intellectual thing
Quote byWilliam Blake · 1757–1827
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), The Gray Monk, st. 8.
English (original)
For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
— William Blake
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