Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — Poet Can Live on Atmosphere. [ARTICLE]

Poet Can Live on Atmosphere.

Some of the dull, utilitarian minds of the world are sometimes at loss to know bow the seemingly improvident poet can dive on what appears to be a very meager income. Stupid things! They have not the comprehension and delicious imagination to perceive that the true bard can warm himself by his own poetic fire and secure his food and drink from bis mince-Pierian spring.