<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429706" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Artist's Duty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame<br>To extend all boundaries<br>To fog them in right over the plate<br>To kill only what is ridiculous<br>To establish problem<br>To ignore solutions<br>To listen to no one<br>To omit nothing<br>To contradict everything<br>To generate the free brain<br>To bear no cross<br>To take part in no crucifixion<br>To tinkle a warning when mankind strays<br>To explode upon all parties<br>To wound deeper than the soldier<br>To heal this poor obstinate monkey once and for all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To verify the irrational<br>To exaggerate all things<br>To inhibit everyone<br>To lubricate each proportion<br>To experience only experience</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To set a flame in the high air<br>To exclaim at the commonplace alone<br>To cause the unseen eyes to open</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To admire only the abrsurd<br>To be concerned with every profession save his own<br>To raise a fortuitous stink on the boulevards of truth and beauty<br>To desire an electrifiable intercourse with a female alligator<br>To lift the flesh above the suffering<br>To forgive the beautiful its disconsolate deceit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To flash his vengeful badge at every abyss</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To HAPPEN</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the artist’s duty to be alive<br>To drag people into glittering occupations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To blush perpetually in gaping innocence<br>To drift happily through the ruined race-intelligence<br>To burrow beneath the subconscious<br>To defend the unreal at the cost of his reason<br>To obey each outrageous inpulse<br>To commit his company to all enchantments.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Patchen">Kenneth Patchen</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=429706" data-title="The Artist's Duty de Kenneth Patchen" data-description="So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog them in right over the plate To kill only what is ridiculous To establish problem To ignore solutions To listen to no one To omit nothing To contradi..."></div> </div> </div>

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