Henry David Thoreau went to the woods to confront what was real and to leave superficiality behind. Today man is not even aware of the superficiality of his tragic life, nor the fact that he is about to be consumed my the monster of narcissism.

William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And What shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

To Be Sane

To Be Sane

"To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart."

Wendell Berry

William Blake

“For he hears the lambs innocent call.
And he hears the ewes tender reply.
He is watchful while they are in peace.
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.”

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.

King Richard III
Shakespear

T. S. Elliot

We are the hollow men, we are stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece full of straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when we whisper together, are quite meaningless, as dry grass...

Elliot said this before he became a Christian.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

He said the above after he became a Christian.

Greene & Greene Architecture

“Architecture is the art which so disposes and
adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.” ~ Ruskin

Longfellow

Be not like dumb driven cattle.