<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507168" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Naked and the Nude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For me, the naked and the nude <br>(By lexicographers construed<br>As synonyms that should express<br>The same deficiency of dress<br>Or shelter) stand as wide apart<br>As love from lies, or truth from art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lovers without reproach will gaze<br>On bodies naked and ablaze;<br>The Hippocratic eye will see<br>In nakedness, anatomy;<br>And naked shines the Goddess when<br>She mounts her lion among men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nude are bold, the nude are sly<br>To hold each treasonable eye.<br>While draping by a showman's trick<br>Their dishabille in rhetoric,<br>They grin a mock-religious grin<br>Of scorn at those of naked skin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The naked, therefore, who compete<br>Against the nude may know defeat;<br>Yet when they both together tread<br>The briary pastures of the dead,<br>By Gorgons with long whips pursued,<br>How naked go the sometimes nude!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507168" data-title="The Naked and the Nude de Robert Graves" data-description="For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress Or shelter) stand as wide apart As love from lies, or truth from art. Lovers without reproach will gaze On bodies naked and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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