Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or writes:
“And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be;
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)