Word: loved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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First, Antigone, I will give you a black eye, to indicate that you must not scribble on my easel again; and long flowing hair, to show that you are in love. For this I take yellow ochre and gamboge, not too much of either, with a slight infusion of chiaroscuro. She shall have a blue tunic like the Sienese madonnas, spotted with little stars. For this, take cobalt, Mars orange, and Chinese white, about half and half. Her feet must be delicately sandalled, as if to walk only on a bed of roses. Around her neck there must...
...check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply. Its interest is personal, too. Eagerly It scans the faces of those that approach, finding in all something to sympathize with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold...
...Glowing love next flames and flashes...
...Chains for clay makes Love, the golden...
...darkness, when love's faded leaf...