Fame is a bee.

It has a song –

It has a sting –

Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

The poet is a faker

Who’s so good at his act

He even fakes the pain

Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

The wisest of wise men knows that he knows not; only a fool thinks he knows.

Spanish proverb

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose upsides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Tony Schwartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schwartz_(author)

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to be visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick

A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino

The Last Laugh

I made hay while the sun shone.

My work sold.

Now, if the harvest is over

And the world cold,

Give me the bonus of laughter

As I lose hold.

Sir John Betjeman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman