“ 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… Tracy Chevalier
“ 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… Kate Atkinson
“ Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. Philip Pullman
“ 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.A… Brenda Ueland
“ Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways. Tracy Chevalier
“ 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 re… Peter Redgrove
“ 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, unex… Brenda Ueland
