<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aspiring to greatness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some choose to write by candlelight <br>and some compose straight on the screen. <br>Whichever way to you seems right, <br> that is the way it’s always been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In days of yore you chose your quill, <br> made sure the ink was close to hand<br>Before your parchment you could fill, <br> then sprinkle it with silver sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pencil is my chosen tool<br>I scribble quickly on my pad<br> and then transfer it as a rule<br>to my computer: I am glad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to see it appear on the screen.<br>Neatly displayed in black and white <br>the font I use shows crisp and clean<br>Then I will edit and put right </div><div style="margin:10px 0">whatever errors I have made. <br>Correct the meter and the rhyme.<br>The final draft is then displayed<br>. Re editing does not waste time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is a task you must not shirk.<br>Though I’m afraid that many do <br>and thus do not present their work.<br>as perfectly as they ought to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is entirely up to you <br>to show that you are willing to<br> do everything that you can do<br> to prove you’re fit to join the few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose poetry will still be read.<br>Like the great poets of the past<br>In years to come when you are dead.<br>Whose golden words were meant to last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413559" data-title="Aspiring to greatness de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Some choose to write by candlelight and some compose straight on the screen. Whichever way to you seems right, that is the way it’s always been. In days of yore you chose your quill, made sure the ink was close to hand Before your parchme..."></div> </div> </div>

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