Publication

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Dorianne Laux

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poet...

Umberto Eco

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.

Anonymous