I (sort of) apologize for the bump, but I'm reading Leo Damrosch's Eternity's Sunrise on Blake, and I thought this too good not to share, and not to add to this thread:
... the artist Samuel Palmer, who knew [Blake] well, remembered him as 'one of the sanest, if not the most thoroughly sane man I have ever known.' And a Baptist minister replied, when asked if he thought Blake was cracked, 'Yes, but his is a crack that lets in the light.'
Fabulous!
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