Nineteenth century

William Blake

1757–1827

Poet and engraver

He printed his own books because no one else would, and the margins are part of the poem. A grain of sand, in his Auguries, is not a pretty smallness. It is a claim that attention is a way of seeing a world.

In the canon

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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.Auguries of Innocence

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