True, some projects are more important than others. But that shouldn’t matter while you’re writing. Prolific writers learn to lose themselves nonjudgmentally in their work, trusting that their skills, community, and the writing process itself will get them where they need to go.
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success.
Part II of ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ by William Shakespeare; with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Published 1908 by Doubleday, Page & Co. See part I here.
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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A collection of poetry and prose, published as well as amateur.
