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blake

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1. blake - Noun

2. blake - Adjective

3. Blake - Proper noun

Meaning

visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. Jim Morrison

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. William Butler Yeats

I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there... As long as Blake knows. Julie Andrews

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. Northrop Frye

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. Adrian Mitchell

In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. "To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron. Hans Georg Dehmelt

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