The Hard Stretching of Oneself
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"All great art is a visual form of prayer." Sister Wendy Beckett
This is the time of year when schools everywhere are awarding prizes http://www.yorkgaypride.com - ergo baby carrier , awards, honors, badges to students whom they've recognized as most deserving. I must confess to some ambivalence about all this. When I was a student, I won every prize in sight http://rizal.lib.admu.edu.ph/matteo/cavs.asp - microsoft office 2010 product key , and then as a young artist for a very long time I didn't win anything. When I was winning I shouldn't have paid as much heed to what others thought, and same when I wasn't winning.
In his poem "In My Craft or Sullen Art" Dylan Thomas spoke in a poem about why he wrote poetry:
In my craft or sullen art / Exercised in the still night / I labour by singing light / Not for ambition or bread / Or the strut and trade of charms / On the ivory stages / But for the common wages / Of (the) most secret heart.
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