17 William Blake Quotes on Love

William Blake quotes on love

4. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

5. Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

26. How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

28. My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

30. How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

35. They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

41. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love, And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

83. Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears- Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly- Oh, was no deny.

87. Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.

93. The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

98. Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

99. 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.

109. Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.

119. And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.

122. There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

142. The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth.'

143. Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.