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Reread this for my Twitch stream, including having the illustrated plates on the video for viewers. It's always such a wild ride, but this is my first time introducing it to others and seeing what they had to say. We also had fun trying to find all the little figures inside the textual portions of each plate. Lots of mermaids and birds, in addition to the dynamic little people. The Swedenborg burn worked even for non-Blakeans. 💀 🔥

#poetrymatters #roar @TheSpineView

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

"Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead."

- Proverbs of Hell

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

- Proverbs of Hell

This book of prose, poetry, and illustrations is said to be the most influential of Blake's works.
The book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (which I‘ve recently read and recommend), takes its title from one of the Proverbs of Hell in the book.

#MagicalMay #Heaven

#quotsydec19 @TK-421
#Excess

“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine”

Is there anything quite as amazing as Blake making this call out plate? 🕯 🕯 ✨

#quotsydec18 #measure

#infinite #quotsynov17 @TK-421

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Without contraries is no progression.