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)

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

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