Reads tagged with “William Blake”
Engraving Is Eternal Work: How to Dodge a Deadline Like William Blake
A subtle lesson in taking responsibility while protecting the integrity of the creative process and the freedom of the artistic imagination.
William Blake Illustrates Pioneering Feminist and Political Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft’s Book of Moral Education for Children
“Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.”
Blake, Beethoven, and the Tragic Genius of Outsiderdom
“It is the mark of a genius like Blake … that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us.”
Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, and How the Radiance of Love Redeems the Rupture of Loss
“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”
Beastly Verse: From Lewis Carroll to William Blake, Beloved Poems About Animals in Vibrant and Unusual Illustrations
“Stories are a meal. But poetry is a glass of water, perhaps even a single drop that will save your life.”
Patti Smith Sings “The Tyger” and Reflects on William Blake’s Transcendent Legacy as a Guiding Sun in the Cosmos of Creativity
“The eternal loom spins the immaculate word. The word forms the pulp and sinew of innocence… William Blake never let go of the loom’s golden skein… He was the loom’s loom, spinning the fiber of revelation.”
Esperanza Spalding Performs William Blake’s Short Existential Poem “The Fly”
A centuries-old, timeless meditation on chance, suffering, and the improbable glory of life.
William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A Searing Defense of the Imagination and the Creative Spirit
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.”
Diane Ackerman on the Secret Life of the Senses and the Measure of Our Aliveness
“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop…”
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