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358 The Kentucky Anthology Olive Tilford Dargan “We Creators” Olive Tilford Dargan was born in Grayson County near Leitchfield in 1869 but spent most of her life in New York and North Carolina. Her earliest writings were long, poetic dramas that are almost unread today, but her proletarian novels written in North Carolina in the 1930s under the pseudonym of Fielding Burke have earned her considerable acclaim. She died in 1968. Her short poem “We Creators” is a tribute to writers and all artists who try—and try again. h Let us go on with experiments; Let us dare and dream and do; Some day we may make a world With a buttercup in it, Or a swallow’s wing. 358 ...

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