Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. - Jules Renard

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -Aristotle

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, providing the madness is given as a divine gift. -Socrates

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. - T.S. Elliot September 26, [...]