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 There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they 
suffer so much from critics and publishers in read more 
 There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they 
suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. 
 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.  
 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. 
 And force them, though it was in spite
 Of Nature and their stars, to write.  
 And force them, though it was in spite
 Of Nature and their stars, to write. 
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
 He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who 
writes verses builds it in granite.
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 He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who 
writes verses builds it in granite.
   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, 
 The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these 
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their read more 
 The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these 
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; 
or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they 
please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. 
 The pen is the tongue of the mind.
 [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]  
 The pen is the tongue of the mind.
 [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.] 
 Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
 Glean after what it can.  
 Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
 Glean after what it can. 
 But every fool describes, in these bright days,
 His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
  And spawns read more 
 But every fool describes, in these bright days,
 His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--
   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.