the thrush sings with every cell of his body at the same time. And I think that the only way for--to--for Vermeer to have painted a picture or for Mozart to have written a sonata or Shakespeare to have written "Hamlet" is, you're not writing it for anybody. You're obsessed with--I think art is creatively obsessed and to be completely involved in the thing that they're doing. [--W.S. Merwin]
from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: W.S. Merwin on Becoming the New Poet Laureate
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