Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake” — Chip Walter Copy Share Image
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“something hits you, and you are in that moment. Everything is suddenly in its rightful place, and you feel like you could… — Riccardo Bruni Copy Share Image
“Because--isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture--? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in… — Hilary Scharper Copy Share Image
“The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Music was a kind of penetration. Perhaps absorption is a less freighted word. The penetration or absorption of everything into itself. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“To feel sabi is to feel keenly one’s own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” — Bruce Macdonald Copy Share Image
The people I really admire, like William Blake and John Coltrane and Richard Wagner, had these ridiculously full universes that took their… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“Hence," goes on the professor, "definitions of happiness are interesting." I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
