Eternity is in love with the production of time.

This line is associated with William Blake’s prophetic writings, where he repeatedly contrasts “Eternity” (the divine, imaginative, timeless realm) with “Time” (the fallen world of change, generation, and mortality). Blake uses the language of love and creation to suggest that temporal existence is not merely a degradation of the eternal but something Eternity actively brings forth. The aphoristic form and metaphysical vocabulary are characteristic of Blake’s late-18th/early-19th-century visionary project: to reframe Christian and philosophical ideas about time, creation, and human perception through poetic myth rather than systematic argument.

Blake compresses a paradox: what is timeless (“Eternity”) nevertheless delights in generating what passes away (“time”). The phrase implies that temporal life—birth, change, decay, history—is not an accident outside the eternal but an expression of it, even a beloved artwork or drama. In Blakean terms, time can be read as the medium through which the infinite becomes perceptible: the eternal imagination “produces” finite forms so that experience, growth, and creative energy can occur. The line also challenges a purely negative view of temporality, suggesting that the transient world has value because it is the chosen manifestation of the eternal.