So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivat…

John Berryman
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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
something has been said for sobriety but very little. ✨ John Berryman (2014). 77 Dream Songs: Poems, p.64, Macmillan
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn ✨ John Berryman (2014). 77 Dream Songs: Poems, p.16, Macmillan
Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet. ✨ John Berryman (2014). The Dream Songs: Poems, p.44, Macmillan

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

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