ARTIST AND MAN.
Make thy life better than thy work. Too .oft Qur artists spend their skill in rounding soft. Fair curves upon .their statmes while the rough ' ' And-ragged edges of the unhewn stuff, In their own natures startle and offend / : The eye of critic and Of friend. In thy too brief day thou must neglect T.hy labour or they /life, let men detect Flaws in thy work! while their, most searching gaze , Can fall on nothing which they may not praise In thy well-chiselled character. The wan Should not be shadowed 'by the artisan I —Ella Wheeler Wjlcox.
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Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 12, 14 August 1930, Page 2
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99ARTIST AND MAN. Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 12, 14 August 1930, Page 2
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