846 Quotes by William Blake

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun.

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen’s ear, And all his pictures faded.

As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan’s gratification.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be.