Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 7)
“I do not behold the outward creation”
A Vision of the Last Judgment
Context: 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.
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William Blake249
English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827Related quotes
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.”
Pronaque quum spectent animalia cetera terram,
Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri
Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
Book I, 84 (as translated by John Dryden)
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.”
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Ensign, February 2001.
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
Source: The Bluest Eye
“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us…”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher
“I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed.
So do we," Newel assured him.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 274
Context: When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. As long as you fight for gain and greed, there will be no peace. As long as one person commits acts of violence for the sake of peace, you will have war. Unfortunately it is difficult to imagine that all the young men in all of the countries will refuse to go to war at the same time. And so you must work out what violence has wrought. Within the next hundred years, that time may come. Remember, you do not defend any idea with violence. There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical. And there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 286.