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William Blake on John Milton
NOTE: The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
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Vital difference
There perhaps is a vital difference between past and present. In the past on lived whatever one did. Now one lives, not as a condition independent of deliberate activities, but only, if ever, in the interstices of action. -Bernard Berenson
For these reasons
If it is bent, it will be preserved intact; is crooked, it will be straightened; is sunken, it will be filled; is worn-out, it will be renewed; has little; it will gain; has much, it will be confused. For these … Continue reading
Death
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. -Julius Caesar
Hide your fires
Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. -Macbeth Act I, Scene IV
When?
When did we get so careful? -Matt Nathanson, Love comes tumbling down
Answer
I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question. -Yogi Berra
This living hand, now warm and capable
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry … Continue reading
A Jedd is in bed
A Jedd is in bed, And the bed of a Jedd Is the softest Of beds in the world, It is said. He makes it from pom poms He grows on his head. And he’s sleeping right now On the … Continue reading
