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Sweet

LAUS VENERIS by Asclepiades

Sweet is snow in summer for the thirsty to drink, and sweet for
sailors after winter to see the garland of spring; but most sweet when
one cloak shelters two lovers, and the tale of love is told by both.

"Tale of the Wandering Aengus" by Yeats

...
and when white moths were on the wing
and moth like stars were flickering out.

I hooked a berry on the string
and caught a little silver trout

When I had laid it on the ground
and bent down to fan the flame

I heard something rustling on the ground,
I heard someone call my name

I turned and saw a glittering girl
with apple blossoms in her hair

She called my name again
and dissappeared into the brightening air...

‎"Keep close to Nature's heart...

and break clear away,

once in awhile,

and climb a mountain

or spend a week in the woods.

Wash your spirit clean."

-- John Muir

In his “Letters on Landscape Painting,” addressing the many artists who had asked that they be taken on as pupils, Durand wrote,

“Why should not the American landscape painter, in accordance with the principle of self-government, boldly originate a high and independent style, based on his native resources?”

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“Every light is a shade, compared to the higher lights, till you come to the sun; and every shade is a light, compared to the deeper shades, till you come to the night.”

- John Ruskin, 1879