“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”

—  William Blake

1810s, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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