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Auden on Originals

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A comment from W.H. Auden's Dyer's Hand rings true:

"All those who success in life depends neither upon a job which satisfies some specific and unchanging social need, like a farmer's, nor, like a surgeon's, upon some craft which he can be taught by others and improve by practice, but upon 'inspiration,' the lucky hazard of ideas, live by their wits, a phrase which carries a slightly pejorative meaning. Every 'original' genius, be he an artist or a scientist, has something a bit shady about him, like a gambler or a medium."

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 12:12 PM

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