Quote-card maker

Choose a stanza, select its lines, and create a properly credited image.

PassageTranslation

LinesHe must early go forth who fain the bloodOr the goods of another would get;The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat,Or the sleeping man success.

FormatAlignmentType size

Approved archive templatePlain folioDark reading roomMarginal notes

Required attribution is always included. The text is never rewritten or sent to an image API.

Accessible plain-text equivalent

He must early go forth who fain the blood Or the goods of another would get; The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat, Or the sleeping man success.

Hávamál, Henry Adams Bellows, stanza 58. Public domain in the United States.