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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

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Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;

Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,

Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,

And do not drop in for an after-loss:

Ah! do not, when my heart hath \'scap\'d this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer\'d woe;

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purpos\'d overthrow.

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,

When other petty griefs have done their spite,

But in the onset come: so shall I taste

At first the very worst of fortune\'s might;

  And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,

  Compar\'d with loss of thee, will not seem so.

 	--William Shakespeare

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that does
not maintain any military secrets. -- Albert Einstein

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot