An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond.... a good feeling about his art. (Robert Pinsky)

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond.... a good feeling about his art.

Robert Pinsky

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