<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Consistency</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should painter attach to a fair human head<br>The thick, turgid neck of a stallion,<br>Or depict a spruce lass with the tail of a bass,<br>I am sure you would guy the rapscallion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believe me, dear Pisos, that just such a freak<br>Is the crude and preposterous poem<br>Which merely abounds in a torrent of sounds,<br>With no depth of reason below 'em.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is all very well to give license to art,--<br>The wisdom of license defend I;<br>But the line should be drawn at the fripperish spawn<br>Of a mere _cacoethes scribendi_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is too much the fashion to strain at effects,--<br>Yes, that's what's the matter with Hannah!<br>Our popular taste, by the tyros debased,<br>Paints each barnyard a grove of Diana!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should a patron require you to paint a marine,<br>Would you work in some trees with their barks on?<br>When his strict orders are for a Japanese jar,<br>Would you give him a pitcher like Clarkson?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, this is my moral: Compose what you may,<br>And Fame will be ever far distant<br>Unless you combine with a simple design<br>A treatment in toto consistent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390868" data-title="Consistency de Eugene Field" data-description="Should painter attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion, Or depict a spruce lass with the tail of a bass, I am sure you would guy the rapscallion. Believe me, dear Pisos, that just such a freak Is the crude and preposterou..."></div> </div> </div>

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