perhaps my personal favorite happens to be from the British poet and visionary William Blake (no doubt because my own theory of the imagination resembles his). Blake was widely considered to be “mad” (of course) in his own time. My favorite story about Blake involves his friend Henry Crabb Robinson being terribly concerned about Blake’s orthodoxy—that is, about his proper Christian beliefs. Robinson was right to be concerned, it turns out, though not quite in the way he expected. Here is Blake’s reply to his friend’s anxious question about whether Blake really believed that Jesus was true God
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