✴Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by madewriters.

✴Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.

Be the Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, 
Be a scrub in the valley - but be 
The best little scrub by the side of the rill; 
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. 

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, 
And some highway happier make; 
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass - 
But the liveliest bass in the lake! 

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, 
There's something for all of us here, 
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do, 
And the task you must do is the near. 

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail, 
If you can't be the sun be a star; 
It isn't by size that you win or you fail - 
Be the best of whatever you are!