12th February, 2016 // 12:16 p.m. // Chai Gate, N.I.D.

The head sublime, the heart pathos, the genitals beauty, the hands and feet proportion.
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
The crow wished everything was black, the owl that everything was white.
Exuberance is beauty.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
Improvement makes straight road; but the crooked roads
without  improvements are the roads of genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where man is not. nature is barren.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not believed.
Enough! or too much.

-William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 10










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