THE PROPHET (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

But this opens up an important question: certainly important to me, because my ability to feed my family depends upon it. If I turn my art into a gift… how do I live? Of course this is not my unique, personal problem. It’s not even a  new  problem. It’s the universal problem faced by all artists, throughout history. 

Do not associate anything with Him; be good to your parents;k and do not kill your children for fear of poverty—We shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them—refrain from committing indecent deeds, whether openly or in secret; and do not kill the life which God has made sacred, save by right. That is what He has enjoined upon you, so that