I wanted to be a poet and/or ...

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
 Peter Blegvad

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Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.
 Peter Blegvad
I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.
 Peter Blegvad