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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

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
• Joseph Conrad


Poems of the Day
  • Linda Pastan
    The Happiest Day
    by Linda Pastan
    It was early May, I think a moment of lilac or dogwood when so many promises are made it hardly matters if a few are broken. My mother and father still hovered in the background, part of the scenery