Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

George Wither : English poet and satirist , 11 June 1588 – 2 May 1667 . From a portrait by John Payne

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/646124/George-Wither

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George Wither, A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Modern, London, 1635, book 3, illustration XXIV.

View the whole poesy text associated with the speaking pictures at http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/withetoc.htm



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