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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet > Thomas Hardy
[I] prefer the...
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[I] prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Source: Letter, 8 Jul 1901, in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy.
-- Thomas Hardy, (Jun 2 1840-1928), English novelist, poet; He was noted for his pessimistic and powerful novels of rural life, e.g., The Return of the Native, 1878.