<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Let Me Not Run After Famous Names!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me not run after famous names! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me not run after famous names<br>With my manuscript on hand<br>Pleading pitifully with a sheepish smile<br>For a favourable preface for my work <br>And await at their gates like a mongrel<br>For months for a few unworthy lines! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let my works be my strength<br>And their content my confidence! <br>Let my trophies be the few linesI gain from unknown faces<br>From far flung areas of the world<br>With real good will and in right earnestness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me desist from organising book release functions<br>Stage-managed to glorify my letters<br>And intoxicate myself out of its kicks! <br>Let me refrain from begging publishers<br>For the paltry sums thrown at face in contempt<br>And boldly publish garnering my resources! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me ready myself to treat both bouquets <br>And brickbats with equanimity! <br>Let me not invade my near and dear<br>Demanding tributes for my works! <br>Let me not tire in my conscious efforts<br>To sculpt my works to finer dimensions! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let my letters not kneel down before might <br>And not praise the unworthy<br>And ever speak for the right and deprived! <br>And their fangs plunge deep <br>Into the vices of the cheats!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sundaram+Chandrakalaadhar">Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar</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=522348" data-title="Let Me Not Run After Famous Names! de Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar" data-description="Let me not run after famous names! Let me not run after famous names With my manuscript on hand Pleading pitifully with a sheepish smile For a favourable preface for my work And await at their gates like a mongrel For months for a few unworthy ..."></div> </div> </div>

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