Confine yourself to the present.
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.
WB William BlakePoet & artist · 1757–1827Was dieses Zitat bedeutet
Blake finds the vast inside the tiny — a whole world in a grain of sand. It is an invitation to wonder: pay close enough attention to the small and ordinary, and the infinite shows through.
Kontext
English poet, painter, and visionary whose luminous verse finds the infinite in the smallest and most ordinary things.
This line is among the quotes by William Blake that readers return to on weisheit, drawn from Auguries of Innocence — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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