Tweedledum

“Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“Seek what you want, cherish what you find, but remember there will always be more.”
― Naoise Dolan

“The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance" Alla Bozarth Campbell.”
― Alla Bozarth-Campbell

“Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible handwriting….here we have copied out fine passages from the classics;…here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink.”
― Virginia Woolf, Granite and Rainbow: Essays