Re: Deception.

To Gerald,

Perswaded, perswasion?

Len.
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<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Len
>
> A true poet writes with indignation but never laments .
>
> A Memorable Fancy.
> The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how
> they dared so roundly to assert that God spake to them; and whether
> they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so
> be the cause of imposition.
> Isaiah answer'd. 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical
> perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and
> as I was then perswaded, & remain confirm'd, that the voice of honest
> indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but
> wrote.'
> Then I asked: 'does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?'
> He replied: 'All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination
> this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a
> firm perswasion of any thing.'
>
>
> http://www.levity.com/alchemy/blake_ma.html
>
> http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/transAdapt/bookJobExcerpt.html
>


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