“So it is the duty of the artist…”

 

 The Journal of Albion Moonlight – Kenneth Patchen

(an edit)

 

So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame

To extend all boundaries

To kill only what is ridiculous

To listen to no one

To omit nothing

To laugh at every situation

To exaggerate all things

To set a flame in the high air

 

It is the artist’s duty to be alive

 

 

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