The English mystical poet William Blake was also a first rate artist. Once, when asked to sketch a picture of man as he really is, Blake drew a picture of a child standing on the topmost rung of a ladder reaching for the moon and crying impatiently, "I want, I want!"
Blake felt that man is a creature of unfulfilled desires.…
CSS Publishing Company, Inc., Word Pictures for Lenten Proclamation, by John W. Rilling