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1 " Remember William Blake who said: " Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word "
2 " Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. "
― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
3 " Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. "
