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Person·William Blake✕clear

Poem · Philosophical literature

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.

1789

★ 7.2

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

1807

★ 7.2

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

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 7.0

Poem · Philosophical literature

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

For every thing that lives is Holy.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrows too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 5.5

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.

1804

★ 5.5

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

1792

★ 5.4

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind.

1792

★ 5.4

Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

1805

★ 5.4

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

1792

★ 5.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.9

Poem · Philosophical literature

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 3.9

Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

1788

★ 3.8

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

Exuberance is beauty.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

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