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As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it.

— Friedrich Rückert

Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt
Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.

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What separates art from science? The gift;
To it, proud knowledge must concede the crown.
Scholarship certainly knows how something ought to be
But it cannot create it — that you alone, art, can do.

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