A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Language can do what it can’t say.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

If you can say it, it begins to exist.