<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=363824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At one time I thought self publishing so vain, <br>but now I have done it a couple of times <br>I am not so sure anymore. <br>In the past, some great writers have done it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They used to call it vanity publishing, <br>but they do not call it that anymore. <br>My first venture was to ensure a copywrite on a poem <br>some people kept trying to claim as their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My second effort was never meant for sale, <br>but done as a gift for two close friends. <br>Something that holds a little bit of me <br>whenever I am not around them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My third effort has for far too long <br>lain on my shelf gathering dust. <br>However, at the time of writing it <br>everyone said this was going to be the one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sadly, at the time Agents and Publishers <br>would not entertain my humble work. <br>Now twenty-one years later <br>we will see who was right or wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who enjoyed reading it <br>or the Agents and Publishers who declined it. <br>Am I vain or Am, I suffering from belief? <br>Only time can tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5 June 2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=363824" data-title="Vain de David Harris" data-description="At one time I thought self publishing so vain, but now I have done it a couple of times I am not so sure anymore. In the past, some great writers have done it. They used to call it vanity publishing, but they do not call it that anymore. My ..."></div> </div> </div>

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