Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Painting and Sculpture

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Poems (1847)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting and Sculpture
1766231Poems — Painting and Sculpture1847Ralph Waldo Emerson

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.


The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm,
Because she still is naked, being dressed:
The godlike sculptor will not so deform
Beauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest.