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

On Art and Artists

These are the idiots’ chiefest arts

THESE are the idiots’ chiefest arts:

To blend and not define the parts

The swallow sings, in courts of kings,

That fools have their high finishings.

And this the princes’ golden rule,

The laborious stumble of a fool.

To make out the parts is the wise man’s aim,

But to loose them the fool makes his foolish game.