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"Here appears definitely the goal toward which the different arts are tending, the place where they will meet perhaps: the future city of the spiritual life, to be built by them [the Impressionsists], of which poetry, as the state of the soul, would be the commanding gesture, music the atmosphere and painting the marvellous decoration." -- Achille Delaroche, "Concerning the Painter Paul Gauguin from an Aesthetic Point of View," as quoted in Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks

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Liberty Enlightening the World, acrylic above by Jeannette Harris -- New York's Statue of Liberty is a 151-foot statue of a woman holding a book and a torch on-high: "One of the colossal sculptures of world history, the Statue of Liberty has greeted millions from other lands who crossed the ocean in search of freedom, opportunity, and is a symbol to the world of those ideals of liberty upon which our nation and form of government were founded."

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rag n. 1. old, worn clothes 2. a newspaper 3. a composition in ragtime
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Jenny's made of earth and sky
and she knows more than she knows.

She's a butterfly
in a flowered thong,
a song that washes
passing boats
with the husks
of swaying straw,
a fiddle bending to her tune
and a dance that slithers wide.
She's a renaissance that rises
on the wild fields of your mind,
a chord that sweet seduces
from the mystery
of her laughing woman-child.



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