“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.”

The Clod and the Pebble, st. 3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Source: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a hell …" by William Blake?

William Blake249

English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

Related quotes

“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.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

“Theologian: But what is to love?
Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.”
Theologus: Amare autem? Philosophus: Felicitate alterius delectari.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher

Confessio philosophi (1673)

“Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.”

William Cowper The Castaway

"The Castaway" (1799).

“We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.”

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Religion

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

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

“All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.”

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Heaven and Hell #399

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;”

W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 9 Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/ Context: All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.

“To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.”

Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher

The Elements of True Piety (c. 1677), The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189

“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.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

William Blake249

Related quotes

Related topics

“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.”