{"title":"William Blake","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet, painter, engraver, and visionary — one of the most singular minds in the history of English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake lived in London from 1757 to 1827 and spent his life doing things nobody else was doing. He wrote poetry and illustrated it himself, engraving the plates, printing the pages, and hand-colouring the results — producing books that were works of art before you read a word. He saw angels in trees as a child and never entirely stopped. He believed imagination was not decoration but the primary force of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis work sits at the edge of the Romantic movement but doesn't quite belong to it — too mystical, too visionary, too committed to his own private mythology. His two great collections, \u003cem\u003eSongs of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSongs of Experience\u003c\/em\u003e, map the gap between the world as we wish it were and the world as it is. The gap hasn't closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlake's quotes carry a quality of compressed fire — lines that feel like they were written at high temperature and haven't cooled yet. 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Who has felt the difference in their chest between doing something because someone said to and doing it because it came from inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey don't need to be told to soar. They just need the reminder that the height is theirs to set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour wings. Your altitude.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same line lives on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-journal\"\u003eSoar High Journal\u003c\/a\u003e — for the writing that happens after the declaration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, painter, and printmaker — he created his books from scratch, writing, illustrating, and printing every page himself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely unrecognized in his lifetime; now considered one of the most original voices in English literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis line comes from \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e — a fierce, visionary work that turned conventional morality on its head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlake's \"Proverbs of Hell\" were not dark — they were liberating. 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The thinker who fills notebooks not because they have answers but because writing is how they find them. The person who keeps coming back to Blake because something about the defiance feels exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour wings. Your ceiling. Your pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn London, 1757. Died 1827. Never left England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, painter, engraver — did all three simultaneously, often on the same page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRejected the Age of Reason while everyone else was celebrating it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1790) — his most subversive work, written as a series of proverbs that inverted conventional morality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted and hand-colored his own books because publishers found him too strange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely ignored in his lifetime. 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