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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Thomas Cole

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Thomas Cole
Age: 47 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 1
Died: 1848
Died: February 11
Artist
Engraver
Painter
Bolton-le-Moors
T. Cole
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Painting
Either
Imagination
Shackled
Anything
Described
Nothing
Seldom
Great
Produced
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Poetry

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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
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It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.
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I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
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To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
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The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find it's something we create.
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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
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Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
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