Often ornateness <br />Goes with greatness; <br />Oftener felicity <br />Comes of simplicity. <br /> <br />Talent that's cheapest <br />Affects singularity. <br />Thoughts that dive deepest <br />Rise radiant in clarity. <br /> <br />Life is rough: <br />Sing smoothly, O Bard. <br />Enough, enough, <br />To have _found_ life hard. <br /> <br />No record Art keeps <br />Of her travail and throes. <br />There is toil on the steeps,-- <br />On the summits, repose.<br /><br />William Watson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/art-maxims/
