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The Poetry Of Robert Browning

CHAPTER V
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In our turn we must break away from them." And now glides in the theory.

"When Greek art reached its perfection, the limbs which infer the soul, and enough of the soul to inform the limbs, were faultlessly represented.

Men said the best had been done, and aspiration and growth in art ceased.

Content with what had been done, men imitated, but did not create.

But man cannot remain without change in a past perfection; for then he remains in a kind of death.
Even with failure, with faulty work, he desires to make new things, and in making, to be alive and feel his life.


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