The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.