…literature. For example, I suddenly discovered, one time I took it, the meaning of a phrase that had always puzzled me in William Blake. He said, it's a phrase which goes like this, gratitude is heaven itself. Well, I did not think about what this meant.…

…only possible universe. There are other very strange universes which some people spontaneously inhabit. I mean, a man like William Blake obviously inhabits an extremely different universe from that which most people inhabit. And I think it's probably very…

…pay higher psychological dividends, so to speak, than gentle and friendly feelings. I mean, they give one a greater kick. William Blake summed this up very succinctly when he said, damn braces, bless relaxes. Well, people like being braced and they like…

…pay higher psychological dividends, so to speak, than gentle and friendly feelings. I mean, they give one a greater kick. William Blake summed this up very succinctly when he said, damn braces, bless relaxes. Well, people like being braced and they like…

…pass almost at will from the ordinary world of experience into the world of visionary experience. We get, for example, such figures as William Blake, who was able to go at almost any time into this other world of visions. It is true that for a good…

…in achieving what they regard as the highest end, the union with God, the the identification with the divine. You get in William Blake, who was essentially a mystic and who was apt to express himself in rather violent terms about those he disagreed with,…

…where that temperament is undervalued or even regarded as abnormal or disreputable. In this context, it's worth quoting a little poem by William Blake, a very touching little poem, where he says, Oh, why was I born with a different face? Why was I not…

…powerful figures of Christ in many of the paintings of Rubens. And it was when he'd seen some of these paintings that William Blake made the little rhyme which says, I always thought Christ was a carpenter and not a brewer's servant, my good sir. And…

…positive ideal as they do in the negative ideal of the other place. We can quote here a phrase of Blake's, which is William Blake, which is a very significant one, where he says, damn braces, bless relaxes. We want both to be braced and to be relaxed.…