‘To Particularize the Alone Distinction of Merit’: Blake's Visionary Imagination (nybooks.com)

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> “The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”

The man who judges how others think thinks the least of his own shortcomings.

Also, he's dead.

Blake responds:

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”