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For, brother, know that this is art, and you
With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,
Have your own vanishing slit of light let through,
Passionate as winter, where only a few may come:
Not idiots in the street find out the lees
In the last drink of dying Socrates.
- Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “Art.”
Categories: Art, Critic
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