“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
“The tree that moves some to tears of joy is to others a green thing that stands in the way. - William… — Jake Eagle LPC 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
“But to fully understand this concept we must actually experience it. We almost always forget that our perception of what we call… — David Jay Brown 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
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. — Bruce Dickinson 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
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I don't believe art is meant to be economical. Art is adventurous, sloppy and hugely imaginative. What I look at is hitting… — Kevin Max 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
“White noise, impersonal roar. Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals. But even these soul-free, sealed-off places are drenched with meaning, spangled and… — Donna Tartt 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
William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I'm searching for the 'big.' — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said,… — Emma Donoghue 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
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all… — Benjamin Clementine 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
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
“(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses” — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
