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GLYNDWR MENTIONED

"Rather than being a seer or endowed with the gift of prophecy [the artist] is something of a vicar whose job is legatine. There is only one tale to tell even though the telling is patient of endless development and ingenuity and can take on a million variant forms. I imagine something of this sort to be implicit in what Picasso is reported as saying: ‘I do not seek, I find’.

"Normally we should not have far to seek: the flowers for the muse’s garland would be gathered from the ancestral burial-mound—always and Inevitably fecund ground, yield¬ ing perennial and familiar blossoms, watered and, maybe, potted, perhaps ‘improved’, by ourselves. It becomes more difficult when the bulldozers have all but obliterated the mounds"

"The muse herself is adamant about this: she is indifferent to what the poet may wish he could feel, she cares only for what he in fact feels. In this she differs totally from her sister, the ‘Queen of the Moral Virtues’, who, fortunately for us, is concerned only with our will and intention."