Adams Cowley

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    The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week’s seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Lukewarmness I account a sin,
    As great in love as in religion.
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)