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William Blake

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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William Blake is saying that truly great or profound ideas are difficult for weak or simple-minded people to understand. He believes that if something can be easily explained to someone foolish, it is not important or valuable enough to deserve his attention.

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