"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world."

Art, Earth, Heaven, World

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"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world."

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"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."

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