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When I have seen by Time\'s fell hand defac\'d

The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;

When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz\'d,

And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;

When I have seen the hungry ocean gain

Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

And the firm soil win of the watery main,

Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;

When I have seen such interchange of state,

Or state itself confounded, to decay;

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate--

That Time will come and take my love away. 

  This thought is as a death which cannot choose

  But weep to have, that which it fears to lose.

 	--William Shakespeare

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to
capture movement itself.
Edgar Degas

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I
have.
Edvard Munch