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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434995" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Emphatically Expressed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A writer doesn't write to attract readers.<br>Maybe gossip columnists do.<br>To sell images and ruin a few.<br>But a writer who is true, <br>Writes because that is what writers do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrote years before anything I wrote was read.<br>It wasn't to impress.<br>Those issues express about me, <br>Have long been put to rest in my head.<br>If something I write is read...<br>I hope a connection is made from what I've said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some also make claims they too like to write.<br>And I say to myself, <br>'Liking and loving are different appetites.'<br>No one who 'is' a writer takes it 'light'.<br>And those who feel this way...<br>May stay up night after night, <br>After many a sleepless night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it isn't for fame or money.<br>Trust me on that.<br>And I thank God what I do isn't done for the glory.<br>That's another story.<br>However, <br>When my contributions do become discovered...<br>It will be 'seen' there is some depthness meant.<br>Something within me that seems never to be solved.<br>Something with content I can not just dissolve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there is nothing to glorify, <br>When someone who writes for nourishment...<br>To feed others, <br>Do not think themselves to eat or drink.<br>Not when a thought comes to possess their minds, <br>With a desire to be completed.<br>Coming with a sensation one should heed.<br>And most of the time this is the writer's deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether the one who 'writes' gets a wink of sleep, <br>Or blinks.<br>And no matter if what is written is accepted, <br>Or thought to be rejected and stinks! <br>This kind of discipline...<br>Does not seek to reach for that attention! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless, <br>Money becomes mentioned.<br>And only then, <br>Of course...<br>What I have just emphatically expressed, <br>You have my permission to ignore.<br>Since my intention will take upon another direction, <br>To excite my need to explore...<br>With a more deepened Introspection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do write.<br>But biting into a good meal, <br>Intrigues!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q>
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Maybe gossip columnists do.
To sell images and ruin a few.
But a writer who is true, 
Writes because that is what writers do.

I wrote years before anything I wrote was read.
It wasn't to impress.
Those i..."></div>
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