Scale

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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

William Blake

Auguries of Innocence

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things Scale

Author

William Blake

Source

Auguries of Innocence Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

John McPhee

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Topic

Scale Shortness of life

Author

John McPhee

Source

Basin and Range

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.