"Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last." — William Blake

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest

Source: Pippa Passes (1841)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I think, therefore I am.

Source: A Discourse on Method (1637), Part IV

William Blake Quote