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Greek Architecture

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Not magnitude, not lavishness,
But Form—the Site;
Not innovating wilfulness,
But reverence for the Archetype.




Quotes of the Day

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
• Mother Teresa


Poems of the Day
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    April
    by Louise Gluck
    No one's despair is like my despair-- You have no place in this garden thinking such things, producing the tiresome outward signs; the man pointedly weeding an entire forest,