William Blake Zitate

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„Es ist einfacher, einem Feind als einem Freund zu vergeben.“

„Was jetzt bewiesen ist, war einst nur vorstellbar.“

„Der Weg der Exzesse führt in den Palast der Weisheit.“

„Ein Narr sieht nicht denselben Baum, den ein Weiser sieht.“

„Wenn etwas liebt, ist es unendlich.“

„Der Mensch, der seine Meinung nie ändert, ist wie ein stehendes Gewässer und züchtet Reptilien im Kopf.“

„Würden die Pforten der Wahrnehmung gereinigt, erschiene den Menschen alles, wie es ist: unendlich.“

„Dem Vogel ein Nest, der Spinne ein Netz, dem Menschen – Freundschaft.“

„Die beschäftigte Biene hat keine Zeit für Trauer.“

„Deine Freundschaft hat oft mein Herz beschwert:
Sei mein Feind, damit die Freundschaft währt.“

„Leicht ist es, // Sich freun in den Zeiten der Wohlfahrt.“

„Jesus, seine Apostel und Jünger waren alle Künstler“

„Der zerschnittene Wurm vergibt dem Pflug.“

„Weisheit wird dargeboten am einsamen Markt, wo keiner kauft, // Und gefunden auf dürrem Acker, wo der Landmann vergebens den Pflug zieht.“

„Gefängnisse werden aus den Steinen der Gesetze errichtet, Bordelle aus den Ziegeln der Religion.“

„Wer begehrt und nicht handelt, brütet Pestilenz aus.“

„Die Wahrheit kann niemals so gesagt werden, dass sie verstanden und nicht geglaubt werden kann.“

„Das Auge verändert, verändert alles.“

„Jedes Ding hat sein Ungeziefer, Gespenst der schlafenden Toten!“

„Aktives Böse ist besser als passives Gut.“

„Diejenigen, die das Verlangen zurückhalten, tun dies, weil ihr Verlangen schwach genug ist, um zurückgehalten zu werden. Und der Zurückhalter oder die Vernunft usurpiert seinen Platz und regiert den Unwillen.“

„Denke am Morgen. Handle am Nachmittag. Iss am Abend. Schlaf in der Nacht.“

„Mitleid ist die goldene Kette, durch die die Gesellschaft zusammengehalten wird.“

„Einige sind zur süßen Freude geboren, einige zur endlosen Nacht.“

“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”

“To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit — General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.”

“Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists”

“The sword sung on the barren heath,
The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield.”

“It is not because Angels are Holier than Men or Devils that makes them Angels but because they do not Expect Holiness from one another but from God only”

“O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness & love:
Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life!
Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages”

“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.”

“The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.”

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

“But most, thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue”

“But Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs.”

“They have divided themselves by Wrath. they must be united by
Pity<…”

“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”

“If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.”

“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”

“Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade,
Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.”

“Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.”

“The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead.”

“Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,
I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.”

“God wants not man to humble himself:
That is the trick of the Ancient Elf.
This is the race that Jesus ran:
Humble to God, haughty to man,
Cursing the Rulers before the people
Even to the Temple’s highest steeple,
And when He humbled Himself to God
Then descended the cruel rod.
‘If Thou Humblest Thyself, Thou humblest Me.
Thou also dwell’st in Eternity.”

“Every Harlot was a Virgin once”

“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.”

“Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?”

“Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.”

“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.”

“Like a fiend in a cloud,
With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increased;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.”

“Seeing this False Christ, in fury and passion
I made my voice heard all over the nation.
…
I am sure this Jesus will not do
Either for Englishman or Jew.”

“In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?”