“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
