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| Fratelli Alinari Giardino di Boboli, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Giardino di Boboli, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Giardino di Boboli, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Giardino di Boboli, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Lante, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Lante, Florence ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Falconieri, Frascati ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Torlonia, Frascati ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Borghese Gardens, Rome ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa d'Este, Tivoli ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa d'Este, Tivoli ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa d'Este, Tivoli ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa d'Este, Tivoli ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
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| Fratelli Alinari Villa d'Este, Tivoli ca. 1914 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
from The Art of Poetry
Is to find that the way you have used a familiar word
Has made it glitter like new. When what you are saying
Is so obscure as to need a novel expression,
It will be time enough for brilliant verbal inventions
– And I do not suppose that that will be very often.
But new-made words can flower, if they come from good roots
And are not allowed to run wild. For why should the reader
Allow to Sterne what he will refuse to Joyce?
And why should I not add something, however little,
To the language which Chaucer and Shakespeare made more pointed
By noticing something no one had noticed before?
It has always been right and it will always be right
To use the word that bears the stamp of the time.
As woodlands lose their leaf at the fall of the year,
The old words go in turn, while the young
Flower and grow strong. For we are promised to death,
And all our things. It may come, sometimes, in a gale
Which bursts inland to give the sea a rest
And a fen that bore nothing except the plashing of oars
May survive to grow good corn for a neighbouring town.
Elsewhere the crops may go and the river pass
To produce more crops after that: for nothing will stand,
Certainly not the repute and pleasure of words.
Many words will come back which seemed to be lost
And many now much in use will be lost again
For nothing but use determines the fate of words.
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by C.H. Sisson (1974)