Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
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The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.”
Künstler ist ein jeder, dem es Ziel und Mitte des Daseyns ist, seinen Sinn zu bilden.
“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) # 20
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