Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)
Artist and Man
Make thy life better than thy work. Too oft Our artists spend their skill in rounding soft, Fair curves upon their statues, while the rough And ragged edges of the unhewn stuff In their own natures startle and offend The eye of critic and the heart of friend. If in thy too brief day thou must neglect Thy labour or thy 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 Man Should not be shadowed by the Artisan!
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