My mother groan'd! my father wept

Quote byWilliam Blake · 1757–1827

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Songs of Experience (1794), Infant Sorrow, st. 1.

English (original)

My mother groan'd! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud: Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

— William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Art is the tree of life. SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH ART is the Tree of LIFEGOD is JESUS

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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?