English - Poet | February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
WorkGoodArtSimpleWaitArtist
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
GoodPeopleNightShortLateMeet
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