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A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

From the feet, Hercules.

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.

And the cold marble leapt to life a God.

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.