“To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.”

— William Blake · Wisdom quote

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. — 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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