The Cultivated Amateur

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"People have been created by God with an aesthetic faculty that demands cultivation." Leland Ryken
"The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye

About Esther Jane

Christian, wife, mother, non-academic. I write about what interests me, mostly literature, sometimes education, always with the goal of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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