Twoscore and Ten.
“For washed in life's river,
My bright mane forever
Shall shine like the gold
As Iguard o'er the fold.”
Night, st. 6
Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.”
Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
Referring to the jazz musicians who performed along with his readings
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 1 (1833).
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 20. How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision
Context: During my slumber I had a dream. I thought I was once more by the side of the Sphere, whose lustrous hue betokened that he had exchanged his wrath against me for perfect placability. We were moving together towards a bright but infinitesimally small Point, to which my Master directed my attention. As we approached, methought there issued from it a slight humming noise as from one of your Spaceland bluebottles, only less resonant by far, so slight indeed that even in the perfect stillness of the Vacuum through which we soared, the sound reached not our ears till we checked our flight at a distance from it of something under twenty human diagonals."Look yonder," said my Guide, "in Flatland thou hast lived; of Lineland thou hast received a vision; thou hast soared with me to the heights of Spaceland; now, in order to complete the range of thy experience, I conduct thee downward to the lowest depth of existence, even to the realm of Pointland, the Abyss of No dimensions.
