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instinctive sense of this, even in the midst of the grotesque confusion
something impious, in takingmoney.html">money for a picture, or a poem.html">poem, or a statue.html">statue.
the world, to be sure, and brazens it out as Business; but he knows very
which cannot be truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money.
marriage service, for christening the new-born babe, and for saying the
itself is paid for; and that he is merely a party to the thing that is
he cannot live, that society will leave him to starve if he does not hit
true. He is, and he must be, only too glad if there is a market for his
something that will sell better than pictures, or poems, or statues.
still, with its inward vision. Many will make believe otherwise, but I
Literature as Business I am tempted to begin by saying that Business is
I.
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the
the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is
of an invariable significance, it does not exist at all. It cannot
precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say him, it says
little, into a poem, and sold it to a magazine, the scandal is greater
modelled a statue to order. These are artistsless.html">less articulate and less
less personally in it; they part with less of themselves in the dicker.
Longfellow and Emerson sold the poems in which they couched the most
submitted to the conditions which none can escape; but that does not
hucksters because they are imposed upon poets. If it will serve to make
in love, or has suffered some real sorrow, like the loss of a wife or
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