Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 · New York : A.A. Knopf · leaf 80
lluminating hopes? Let usonly reproach those four I Was it not better for literature in the days whenthey paid too little to entice many of us to write fora living? Charles Lamb was a wise man. Hewaited around an accountants office long enoughto draw a little pay-envelope, and then slippedquietly… … MAGAZINE WRITING 79 princes would pay a poet just for existing, and lethim compose at his fancy. But I do not believe so.Art is always in danger of removing itself from reallife; and the dominant feature of real life is thepressure of necessity; and the artist, the writer,ought to taste that, and…
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