Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or writes:
“Farewell green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister, Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)