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“And even though the image be distorted—as in all works of art, even the greatest, it always must be—yet it is joy even to have created the poorest image of a dream.”

Finding creative joy even in the inevitable gap between vision and achievement · Essay, Wings and the Child, Part II, Chapter IV: The Magic City

About E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit

15 August 1858–4 May 1924

Edith Nesbit, who published most often as E. Nesbit, was born on 15 August 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now within south London. She died on 4 May 1924 at New Romney, Kent. In the years between those dates she became one of the most inventive writers for children in English…

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