SOME BRAIN PICKINGS...

Georgia O’Keeffe on Success, Public Opinion, and What It Means to Be an Artist, in a Letter to Sherwood Anderson – Brain Pickings

The Agony of the Artist (with a capital A): E.E. Cummings on What It Really Means to Be an Artist and His Little-Known Line Drawings

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/e-e-cummings-miscellany-agony-of-the-artist/?mc_cid=3c9ee7f5ce&mc_eid=dde8965dd8

On Cummings

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/11/e-e-cummings-a-life-susan-cheever/?mc_cid=3c9ee7f5ce&mc_eid=dde8965dd8