Blake Writes

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    “If thought is life
    And strength & breath,
    And the want
    Of thought is death;

    Then am I
    A happy fly,
    If I live,
    Or if I die.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)