'The art of life, then, is to make life and art one, so far as we can, for ourselves and for others, - to find, if possible, the occupation in which we can put something of self. So should gladness and content come back to earth. But now, with the body made a slave to machinery, and the spirit defrauded of any scope for its pent-up force, we have nothing to hope for in the industrial world; and the breach between art and life will go on widening until labour is utterly brutalized and art utterly emasculated.'
from The Art of Life, a piece in The Kinship of Nature by Bliss Carman
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