Oleander

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?"
"Because he loves me more than all the world”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II