William Blake: Citáty anglicky

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“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”

William Blake

Zdroj: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 21-23 The Words of Blake

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

William Blake A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

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

William Blake

Zdroj: Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 7, lines 57-58 The Words of Los to his Spectre

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

William Blake

Frontiespiece, plate 1, line 11 (as it seen on the additional plate, Fitzwilliam Museum).
1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)

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

William Blake To God

To God
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

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

William Blake

Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, title page (c. 1798–1809)
1790s

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

William Blake

Ibid, stanza 9
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition