a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.
My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
The seasons run with swift feet.
Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.