“Men would bless you or curse you;
The curse, a protest against failure,
The blessing, a hymn of the hunter
Who comes back from the hills
With provision for his mate.”

Wilson Lewis, Prologue, p. 3
2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Book VII
Rebel of the Underground (2013)

Source: The Curse of Chalion

Source: The Alchemist

Благослови непријатеље моје, Господе, и ја их благосиљам и не кунем.
Prayers by the Lake http://www.sv-luka.org/praylake/index.htm

"The Old Man and the White Horse"
In the Eye of the Storm (1991)
Context: All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don’t know. Whether it be a curse or a blessing, I can’t say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next?

Source: The Subtle Knife

Stanza 3.
1710s, Psalm 98 "Joy to the World!" (1719)

In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler : Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12