William Blake Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Crowns, Fame

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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