William Blake cytaty

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Źródło: Boski wizerunek, przeł. Jerzy Pietrkiewicz

Zaślubiny Nieba i Piekła

Źródło: Nie próbuj mówić o miłości

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? (ang.)
Inna wersja:
Tygrysie, błysku w gąszczach mroku,
Jakiemuż nieziemskiemu oku
Przyśniło się, że noc rozświetli
Skupiona groza twej symetrii? (tłum. Stanisław Barańczak)
Źródło: Tygrys, przeł. Jerzy Pietrkiewicz

Zaślubiny Nieba i Piekła

Zaślubiny Nieba i Piekła

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And A Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an Hour. (ang.)
Wróżby niewinności

Wróżby niewinności

Zaślubiny Nieba i Piekła

Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night. (ang.)
Wróżby niewinności

Źródło: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12

The Little Black Boy, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

The Chimney Sweeper, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

Źródło: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 15, lines 6-9

The Divine Image, st. 3
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

Źródło: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s

Źródło: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Kontekst: If He had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus,
He’d have done anything to please us;
Gone sneaking into synagogues,
And not us’d the Elders and Priests like dogs;
But humble as a lamb or ass
Obey’d Himself to Caiaphas.

The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Kontekst: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.

Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Kontekst: To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the Sun & and a bag worn with the use of Money has more beautiful proportions than a Vine filled with Grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers..

The Book of Thel, Thel's Motto (1789–1792)
Kontekst: 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?

The Laocoön

The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 74-75 <br class="br">Kontekst: And now let me finish with assuring you that, Tho I have been very unhappy, I am so no longer. I am again. Emerged into the light of day; I still &amp; shall to Eternity Embrace Christianity and Adore him who is the Express image of God; but I have travel&#x27;d thro&#x27; Perils &amp; Darkness not unlike a Champion. I have Conquer&#x27;d, and shall still Go on Conquering. Nothing can withstand the fury of my Course among the Stars of God &amp; in the Abysses of the Accuser. My Enthusiasm is still what it was, only Enlarged and conform&#x27;d.

A Vision of the Last Judgment
Kontekst: I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea!" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

Kontekst: I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea!" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

A Vision of the Last Judgment

A Vision of the Last Judgment
Kontekst: I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea!" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

Źródło: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 10, lines 20-21 The Words of Los

Źródło: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 3

Źródło: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 46

Źródło: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Źródło: Songs of Experience

Wariant: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Źródło: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 10

The Clod and the Pebble, st. 3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Źródło: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Źródło: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 69

A Memorable Fancy
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

The Argument
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)