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spirit of choice, and delicate instinct of selection, did not, as it were, purify it for/us, and give to it a momentary perfection. 

It seems to me that the imagination spreads, or should spread, a solitude around it, and works best in silence and in isolation. Why should the artist be troubled by the shrill clamor of criticism?" Well, Willie wasn't. Not only did he never see the criticisms but he ever went further & hated to show the pictures. So that is up to me now. 

I know you value and never forget the artist nor the friend and I appreciate this.