• The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

  John Berryman
  American poet and scholar
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. extremely
2. presented
3. possible
4. actually
5. business
6. point

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. by : John Berryman

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