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 One thing for sure is that I am not as talented as I think I am sometimes. I try to not encourage my ego because I think that encourages bad writing. I am willing to go public with a not so good poem IF I think something better will come along. But I don’t believe everything I do or say or write is good. There are persons today who DO think everything they do is “special” and I dispise them.

--jim mccrary from a recently published interview [i love this quote because it is both a lesson in writing and a lesson in humility in the life of writing while arrogating the responsibilities and the necessity of a writing life]