“Writing things down is dangerous. Ink can’t be erased without leaving a mess behind.”
Carole Morin British writer
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
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German theologian 1260–1328Related quotes
“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.”
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Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
Foreword
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: A poet can only write about what is true to his own experience, not about what he would like to be true to his experience.
Poetry does not state truth, it states the conditions within which something felt is true. Even while he is writing about the little portion of reality which is part of his experience, the poet may be conscious of a different reality outside. His problem is to relate the small truth to the sense of a wider, perhaps theoretically known, truth outside his experience.
“External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 47
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Evelyn Underhill book Practical Mysticism
Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VII, The First Form Of Contemplation, p. 127