Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being.… — Peter Redgrove 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
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
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Eternity He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies… — René Daumal Copy Share Image
“William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
“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
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the… — Cass R. Sunstein 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
“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
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather… — Mark Forsyth 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
“Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world… — David Amram Copy Share Image
“William Blake admired the work of William Wordsworth but is said to have once been so mad at him over a theological… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“It was Coleridge, a compulsive book scribbler, who first called it marginalia. Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“(about William Blake) [Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it’s a curiously uniform message, accepted from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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