“One writes out of one thing only–one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.“
~ James Baldwin as quoted in “The Business of the Writer” Black Ink.
“Do not let any lionizers stampede you. Hide and write and study and think. I know what factions do. Beware of them. I know what flatterers do. Beware of them. I know what lionizers do. Beware of them.“
~Vachel Lindsay in a letter to Langston Hughes as quoted in “Poetry is Practical” in Black Ink.
Grant yourself time to hide and write, to study and think, to create that order which is art.
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