Variant: 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.
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 1
William Blake: Eternity
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“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 74-75
Context: And now let me finish with assuring you that, Tho I have been very unhappy, I am so no longer. I am again. Emerged into the light of day; I still & shall to Eternity Embrace Christianity and Adore him who is the Express image of God; but I have travel'd thro' Perils & Darkness not unlike a Champion. I have Conquer'd, and shall still Go on Conquering. Nothing can withstand the fury of my Course among the Stars of God & in the Abysses of the Accuser. My Enthusiasm is still what it was, only Enlarged and conform'd.
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Variant: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 10
No. 1, He Who Binds
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792), Several Questions Answered
“This world of imagination is the world of eternity.”
A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s
Book the First, 24:72
1800s, Milton (c. 1809)
“Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 67
1810s, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 16-20 The Words of Blake
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 50
1790s