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Painting And Sculpture

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm,
Because she still is naked, being drest;
The godlike sculptor will not so deform
Beauty, which bones and flesh enough invest.




Quotes of the Day

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
• William Congreve


Poems of the Day
  • Elinor Wylie
    XVII
    by Elinor Wylie
    Upon your heart, which is the heart of all My late discovered earth and early sky, Give me the dearest privilege to die; Your pity for the velvet of my pall;