3 Matching Annotations
- Jul 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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The Divine image
- for: William Blake, poem, evolution, beauty, climate communication, motivation
- William Blake Poem
- The Divine Image
- To Mercy, pity, peace and love all pray in their distress and in these virtues of delight return their thankfulness
- when push comes to shove as they say in English
- when you're up against the wall when you're in an extreme situation
- someone's going to hit you and what do you do? Mercy Mercy you just say it or
- you see someone else, they're about to hit someone and you say for pity's sake don't do that or
- you find somebody very, very attractive and you feel this love right?
- that's why he says
- love the human form Divine
- mercy has a human heart
- pity a human face
- love the human form Divine
- these things are actually almost spontaneous intuitive things that happen and what does it mean?
- they come from the biosphere
- they come from your body
- they come from evolution
- it's very, very clear for example that art and language ritual comes from at least as far back as primates
- The Divine Image
- William Blake Poem
- for: William Blake, poem, evolution, beauty, climate communication, motivation
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- Apr 2022
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In his illuminated bookJerusalem, Los—Blake’s alter ego—voiced a sentiment that might have servedas the Romantics’ motto. “I must create a system,” Blake’s character declared, orelse “be enslav’d by another man’s.”
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- Jul 2021
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austinkleon.com austinkleon.com
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Like William Blake said, you either create your own system or get enslaved by another’s.
Interesting quote (direct attribution?) particularly within the context of commonplace books.
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