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It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

— Samuel Palmer Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876)

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The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.

Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879)

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

I don't suffer much from solitude in the evenings. I spring upon my books. I always spoke a good word for solitude, and it is grateful to me. Books ward off the ghastly thoughts.

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

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