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Deciding to become a painter, he entered the studio of Gerome in Paris, where he enjoyed the life of the artists, but soon found that whatever talent he might have did not lie in that direction.
He gives us an account of this in his lively and humorous poem, `` The Happy Artists ''.
`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.
I looked unceasingly With my cold mind and with my burning heart ''.
In this final line, we have the key to his nature.
Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.
Heidenstam could never be satisfied by surface.
It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.

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