“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive”
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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
"Life, Art and America", in The Seven Arts (February 1917)
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Hetty Bowman
(1838–1872)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 432.