Mick Dennis Guitarist

"To keep his errors down to a minimum, the internal Censor to whom a poet submits his work in progress should be a Censorate. It should include, for instance, a sensitive only child, a practical housewife, a logician, a monk, an irreverent buffoon and even, perhaps, hated by all the others and returning their dislike, a brutal, foul-mouthed drill sergeant who considers all poetry rubbish."
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) excerpts from Brain Pickings by Maria Popova