I write to make sense of my life. " -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.
Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things. Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.
Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help. " Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious. " Riley
The older I get, the less I am bothered by talk like that. I have total faith in my coach Yohan Blake, total faith.
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on. '' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for. . . . . . To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.