. >> you said that you were inspired by the william blake poem, and the idea of the children's voices echoing in the mountains. what about that poem captured your imagination? >> well, i had written the whole novel, and i kept waiting for a title which never came and began to seriously worry. [laughter] i would e-mail my editor ask say i still don't have a title, and, you know, what am i going to do? so i started researching poems about children because this book in some ways really is about children. and i found this lovely poem by william blake called the nurse's song, and there was a verse and one of the last lines was "and all the hills echoed." and then i saw alan ginsburg on youtube singing that -- >> alan ginsburg singing? >> yeah. [laughter] >> that's extraordinary. [laughter] >> yeah. chanted that last line over and over, and i taught it was such an evocative phrase, and it really just kind of struck me. i thought i would play with that title, and i talked to my editor, sarah mcgrath, and we played around it and changed hills to mountains, for obvious reasons, but also becaus

william blake said that, what is now proved was once only imagined. now think about the importance of that. if you want to have something show up in your life, the kind of person you would like to become, manifest something new into your life, something powerful, whatever it might be, you obviously must first be able to imagine it. your imagination, this is yours and yours alone. you can place anything into your imagination that you want to place there. independent of what anybody else says about it, independent of what your senses tell you, independent of all the evidence that may be to the contrary, you can place into your imagination an i am that represents what you would like to attract into your life and make it come into fruition. einstein's most famous quote, one of his most famous observations, he said, imagination is more important than knowledge. knowledge is limited. imagination encircles the world. placing these i ams into your imagination i had a, some of you, i'm sure, know about it because it's been all over the papers and so on, a diag

remember william blake possible full cry in jerusalem -- didn't those feet walk upon england's mountaincreen and what the holy man of god in england's pastures seen. did the countenance divine shine forth upon our clouded hills and was jerusalem built it here among those dark satanic mills. ring me my whole of ringgold, bring me my arrows of desire, ring me my chariot of fire. i will not cease from mental fight nor shall my sword sleep in my hand that we have old jerusalem in england's green and wasn't land. 1808. ,s blake, a romantic, good poet as blake was reflecting the pains of some of his fellow citizens. other intellectuals followed suit in much the same way. , wordsworth,ings keats, byron, shelley, and of course all of you remember mary shelley. documentkenstein as a of the mid-industrial revolution some ofcan begin to see the responses of the citizenry of the time. there was another movement led by another mythical figure called captain swing, a movement earnricultural workers who the threshing machines which .ere replaced there were things called the swing letters. sir, they wr