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Read & copy the quotation
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.”
- Date
- 1790
Meaning of “If the doors of perception were cleansed every…”
Blake imagines habitual perception as a filter that narrows reality; cleansing it would reveal a less limited world.
Where does it come from?
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 14; Blake’s prose-poetic argument about the limits and cleansing of perception.
