William Shenstone Quote

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.


"Detached Thoughts : On Writing and Books", p. 129. - Essays on Men and Manners (1804)


Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.