Quote

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

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
Light
Southern
Soul
Wild
Children
English
Angel
Child
White
Bereaved
Black
Bore
Mother
Bores

More quotes by William Blake

Image
Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
William Blake
Image
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake
Image
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
William Blake
Image
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
William Blake
Image
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head!
William Blake
Image
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
William Blake
Image
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
Image
I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
William Blake
Image
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
Image
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
William Blake
Image
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake
Image
But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
William Blake
Image
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
William Blake
Image
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
William Blake
Image
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
William Blake
Image
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
William Blake
Image
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake
Image
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
Image
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
Image
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
William Blake