Art and Nature are not, then, discordant, but ever harmoniously working in each other.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839). copy citation

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Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source Hyperion
Topic art work
Date 1839
Language English
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“As vaporsfrom the ocean, floating landward and dissolved in rain, are carried back in rivers to the ocean, so thoughts and the semblances of things that fall upon the soul of man in showers, flow out again in living streams of Art, and lose themselves in the great ocean, which is Nature. Art and Nature are not, then, discordant, but ever harmoniously working in each other." Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. Flemming spake with such evident interest in the subject, that Miss Ashburton did not fail to manifest some interest in what he said; and, encouraged by this, he proceeded;” source