William Blake...

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy.

But he who kisses the joy as it flies,
Lives in eternity's sun rise.


- William Blake

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"The Enlightened Heart"
An Anthology of Sacred Poetry
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Harper & Row, New York , 1989