Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " with profane answers. Better say “Shut up” sincerely that “Good morning” with false pretenses. How can one express sincerety (sic) who lives a constant lie with those he comes in contact with? Politeness is a succession - not of petty sacrifices - but of petty hypocrisies. / I heard several redbirds’ “chts” today. I always hear them in the same places around the town. It is almost unnecessary to see them for the single sound brings to my mind at once a flash of red against a vivid "