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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.”
― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“...fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.”
― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.”
― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear