But artists, though, are human; and for man
To be a scivvy is not nice at all:
So everyone will do the best he can
To get a patch of ground which he can call
His own. He doesn't really care how small,
So long as he can style himself the master:
Unluckily for art, it's a disaster.
— from Letter to Lord Byron by W. H. Auden
— sdh