Wer zornig wird, gerät in Irrtum.
Die Fee des guten Willens im Märchen Dornröschen

Who gets angry gets mistaken.
The Fairy of Good Will in the fairytale Sleeping Beauty

Credits to Ed, the old philanderer!

In Broken Images

He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images,

Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.

Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact,
Questioning their relevance, I question the fact.

When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
When the fact fails me, I approve my senses.

He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.

He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.

poem by Robert Graves