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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1790

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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake · Auguries of Innocence, 1803 · Primary source

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William Blake · 1803
Auguries of Innocence

A sequence of aphoristic verses linking everyday acts with wider questions of innocence, suffering, injustice, perception and spiritual consequence.

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