QUOTE : I had hardly begun to read<br />I asked how can you ever be sure<br />that what you write is really<br />any good at all and he said you can't<br /><br />you can't you can never be sure<br />you die without knowing<br />whether anything you wrote was any good<br />if you have to be sure don't write<br /><br />— W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman,” <i>Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983</i> (Copper Canyon Press; English Language edition October 1, 1996)