“To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.”

— William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1803

About William Blake

1757 – 1827

English poet and artist, author of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience".

“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go.”

“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”