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Вариант: 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.
Источник: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 1
“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”
Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“Opposition is true Friendship.”
A Memorable Fancy
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
Источник: The Portable Blake
The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
A Divine Image, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
Источник: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 53
The Voice of the Devil
Источник: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”
The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Контексте: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
“Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Контексте: Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
A Memorable Fancy
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
Источник: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Источник: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
Источник: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 44
Источник: Songs of Innocence and of Experience