Mentions (10)
"England ought to have its own anthem - it ought to have its own anthem anyway - and by all rights it should be Jerusalem. The best song about England ever written that isn't also about curry. You could say it's too Christian but the head of state is also head of the Church of England so that horse h"
"I couldn't make the leap out of my own soul into the soul of the universe. That's the leap they all made. From Blake to Rimbaud."
"And did those feet in ancient time, / Walk upon Englands mountains green: / And was the holy Lamb of God, / On Englands pleasant pastures seen!"
"William Blake once dramatised a difficult bowel movement as a battle between primordial forces."
"i was reading about william blake and the book i was reading said that people thought he was just a weirdo when he was alive. it's like if we found out 50 years later that the best musician of the 2020s is some guy who posted some albums on bandcamp that three people downloaded."
"England ought to have its own anthem - it ought to have its own anthem anyway - and by all rights it should be Jerusalem. The best song about England ever written that isn't also about curry."
"That's the leap they all made. From Blake to Rimbaud."
"And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen!"
"William Blake once dramatised a difficult bowel movement as a battle between primordial forces."
"Like William Blake before her, she took Protestant hymnology and its Biblical imagery and used them to craft deeply personal and private yet simultaneously metaphysical verse."