by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Without Contraries is no progression
Language: English
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John David White (b. 1931), "Contraries", published c1972 [SATB chorus and piano or orchestra], from Three Madrigals, no. 1, NY : G. Schirmer [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-03
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