Dream.

Chardin, Young Student Drawing, 1738

ART

In placid hours well-pleased we dream

Of many a brave unbodied scheme.

But form to lend, pulsed life create,

What unlike things must meet and mate:

A flame to melt–a wind to freeze;

Sad patience–joyous energies;

Humility–yet pride and scorn;

Instinct and study; love and hate;

Audacity–reverence. These must mate,

And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel – Art.

Herman Melville