<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Don't Think I Will Ever Learn To Be Humble</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't think I will ever learn to be humble-<br>After so many years of rejection, <br>After so many failed efforts at publication, <br>After so much self- publication, <br>And in its wake<br>So little enthusiasm for my work, <br>After so much pushing of myself<br>And so little response to that pushing<br>After so much trying again and again<br>Over nearly fifty years, <br>I still write and attempt to push myself forward, <br>As if there still will come a vindication<br>A revelation and total transformation<br>In the way my work is seen-<br>It appears I will die then as a wannabe, <br>Still pushing still dreaming still believing <br>I should be what clearly I am not-<br>I will never learn to be humble-<br>I will carry to the grave <br>My own exaggerated idea of the worth <br>Of my work and the value of myself. <br>I will go down to the grave<br>The fool of my own dream<br>A lifelong failure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=516723" data-title="I Don't Think I Will Ever Learn To Be Humble de Shalom Freedman" data-description="I don't think I will ever learn to be humble- After so many years of rejection, After so many failed efforts at publication, After so much self- publication, And in its wake So little enthusiasm for my work, After so much pushing of myself And..."></div> </div> </div>

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