Wisdom Obscured

'Joe Scholar' or a Sculpture in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library - 17 Oct 2008

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the Idiot is not worth my care. The wisest of the Ancients considered what is not too Explicit as the fittest for instruction because it rouzes the faculties to act. I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato."

-William Blake, 23 Aug 1799