“Energy is the only life and is from the Body.”William Blake · Căsătoria Cerului cu Infernul · 1793 · Argumentul
Reason doesn't create life, it only channels it; life burns in the body.
Blake writes on behalf of Hell, meaning impulse, against a Heaven that wants to restrain it. For him, everything alive burns: desire, anger, creation. Reason does not produce life, it only channels it. A painter who cannot sleep at night yet finishes a canvas by dawn lives exactly this energy, coming from the body and not from a plan.
Why it matters It helps you recognize the moments when you are truly alive and keep from smothering them with excessive planning.