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Thursday, December 14, 2017

ART




In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt---a wind to freeze; 
Sad patience---joyous energies;
Humility---yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity---reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel----ART.



Herman Melville

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