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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
Born: Aug 23, 1849
Died: Jul 11, 1903

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Confusion, Whatever, Appropriate, Immortal, Only, Select, Raw, Raw Material, Idle, Material, Accidental, His, Perpetuation, Artist, Irrelevant, Which, Gross, Function, Actuality, Eliminate, Copy

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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