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...mother got me [William Blake's] Songs of Innocence as a child, and the idea of mixing drawing and handwriting was ingrained in me quite early. Since I was very young I loved poetry, reading the Bible, fairy tales. I was very young when I developed a personal aesthetic, ironically through fashion magazines - old Vogue magazines from the '50s. I noticed when I was 8 or 9 years old that the photographs were more pleasing and more beautiful than the photographs in the TV Guide or my mother's movie magazines. Vogue in the late '50s was a very sophisticated...
...have my relationship with my mother, but I also have had a very long relationship with Rimbaud or William Blake, and they've given me a lot. I counted on them when I felt alone, they shepherded me through my adolescence, they gave me an example to follow...
...Allen Ginsberg and I used to talk about this - our spiritual ancestors. We would make a little game of 'Who's on your family tree'. Allen had William Blake and Walt Whitman; he thought Blake, Whitman and himself were a direct line. And he lived that line, and to his dying day, he was studying Whitman and Blake, and his own work resonates these...
...Blake Gallagher is a little too pumped up from the goal and levels Matt McCollem in the Harvard zone. Two minutes for boarding will give Harvard a brief 4-on-3, then about half a minute...
...known as a stalwart defender, capable of getting any shot back over the net and extending rallies into painful long-distance sprints for his opponents. But this tendency came at the price of hiding Clayton’s strong underlying game. According to Rueb, when Harvard tennis great James Blake ’01 saw Clayton playing as a freshman, he was impressed but told him he had to step up and attack short balls. “He had a tendency to step back and allow his legs to bail him out,” Rueb said. But that...