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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
— A. S. Byatt
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
— Eugene Delacroix
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than…
— Julia Cameron
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
— Eugenio Montale
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
— Peter Max
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…
— Paul Cezanne
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