“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

— William Blake · Wisdom quote

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake quote card
English poet and artist · 1757 – 1827

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker whose illuminated books, including Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, were largely unrecognised in his lifetime. He is now considered a seminal figure of Romantic poetry and visual art.

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