“Exuberance is Beauty.”

— William Blake, book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Variant: Exuberance is Beauty.
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 64

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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