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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
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william-blake
innocence
pity
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William Blake |
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"(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy." ...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven. "
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freedom
living
happiness
william-blake
glory
effort
creativity
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Brenda Ueland |
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"Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word"
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writing
reality
william-blake
genius
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Brenda Ueland |
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795c792
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She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen.
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death
edward-thomas
gerard-manley-hopkins
john-keats
kate-atkinson
literary-allusions
literary-quotes
william-blake
william-wordsworth
quotes
beautiful
william-shakespeare
dying
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Kate Atkinson |
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c24e025
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It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
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mind
eden
william-blake
senses
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Peter Redgrove |
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a41130f
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William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses
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five-senses
william-blake
senses
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Marion Woodman |
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7a32f33
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Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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christianity
religion
god
william-blake
innocence
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William Blake |
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0587128
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All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
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poetry
romantics
william-blake
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William Blake |
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64fd26e
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Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not just peace, but at war. Not just innocent, but experienced.
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contraries
gray-area
mix-of-traits
william-blake
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Tracy Chevalier |
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6773ce8
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Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.
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philosophical
william-blake
opposites
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Tracy Chevalier |