Moments

Clear moments are so short.

There is much more darkness. More

ocean than firm land. More

shadow than form.

Adam Zagajewski

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

Proofs

Death will not correct

a single line of verse

she is no proof-reader

she is no sympathetic

lady editor

a bad metaphor is immortal

a shoddy poet who has died

is a shoddy dead poet

a bore bores after death

a fool keeps up his foolish chatter

from beyond the grave.

Tadeusz Rózewicz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_R%C3%B3%C5%BCewicz

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters….You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

James Scott Bell

https://www.jamesscottbell.com/

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

François Mauriac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

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

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

I belong to the common people. From the middle classes one gets ideas, from the common people – life itself.

D.H. Lawrence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence