Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
For you know only a heap of broken images
I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.