William Blake's poetry quote He who binds to himself…
Page 193 William Blake's poetry quote He who binds to himself to joy death a winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sunrise.
— from The Landing (Death) · Becoming wise by Krista Tippett
In the book
The danger, as Heschel warned, is that we take the whole world for granted and so lose the very power to feel it with awe and reverence; the cure is to pay deliberate attention to things of beauty. William Blake said it best: the man who binds himself to a joy destroys it, but the man who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise. Run Montaigne's drill. He taught himself, at the stumble of a horse, the fall of a tile, the smallest pinprick, to pause and ask: well — what if this were death itself? — The Landing (Death)