The Complete Poems
Blake invented his own mythology, his own printmaking process, and his own rules.
“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.”
Why It Matters
Blake invented his own mythology, his own printmaking process, and his own rules. He was the first major English poet to treat imagination as a force more real than reason, and his influence runs straight through the Beats, the counterculture, and anyone who ever distrusted institutions. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" is Blake in a nutshell.
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Personal reviewOnly read less than a 20th, the greatest hits. Everything seemed too complicated and airy or simple. I much preferred the simple
Notable Quotes
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”