Quote

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

William Blake

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Mother
Leapt
World
Groaned
Wept
Pregnancy
Birthday
Birth
Dangerous
Father

More quotes by William Blake

Image
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
William Blake
Image
Gratitude is heaven itself there could be no heaven without gratitude.
William Blake
Image
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.
William Blake
Image
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Image
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
William Blake
Image
Where there is money there is no art.
William Blake
Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
William Blake
Image
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Image
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
William Blake
Image
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
William Blake
Image
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
William Blake
Image
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
William Blake
Image
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.
William Blake
Image
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
William Blake
Image
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
William Blake
Image
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'.
William Blake
Image
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
Image
Energy is the only life, and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
Image
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
William Blake
Image
He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
William Blake