Tuesday, October 05, 2010

On Desire

Plate 5
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer of reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.

And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.


~~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The voices in 's head dictated this at 9:13 AM
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