Christian Wiman Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. 1966
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.
source: Interview with Anthony Domestico, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 16, 2014. 
topic: Artist, People, Mind, Ironclads
