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William Blake quotes

1757–1827 · English poet and painter

Blake engraved and printed his own illustrated books and was dismissed as mad in his lifetime.

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2 quotes traced to William Blake's own work or a reliable witness.

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
Source: "Auguries of Innocence" (c. 1803)
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)