"When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can’t know—you can only hope—that what you’re offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it’s a labor of love, and it’s the nature of love that you must give it freely."
— Anne Michaels, Canadian poet and novelist (via tender)
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