Does a rejection letter go slap on the mat if there is nobody at home to hear it?

[Marc Joan]

Rejection does not make you a bad poet.
Acceptance does not make you a good one.
Therefore, neither should trouble you.

Chase after fame, however, and you put your life
into the hands of others:
they will tip you between hope and despair.

Aim, then, to be aimless.
Seek neither publication, nor acclaim:
submit without submitting.

Cameron Self

I found the above on the dear old internet, and thought I would share it.....

 

[Katie-Ellen]

I'm not a great reader of poetry, but I know several poets far greater, operating spine-tingling spheres above the current laureate incumbent. Tis ever so.
I don't rate Shakespeare either, for the most part. Some great lines, and some totally crappy stories.

Full fathom five my father lines...

A line like that, and he goes and writes The Tempest round it. But there it is, a sacred moo-moo.
I'd agree with that finding, totally. Write the thing because you want to, try for excellence for its own sake, send it off down the river, and see where it goes.

 

[EPHahn]

"Submit without submitting".

What a gem. Thanks for posting!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Thinking of some Sun Tsu type musings, Fight your enemy where he isn't, Move like water, stand like stone.
(Lack of quotation marks denotes not an actual quote lol)

 

[tabby3]

Does a rejection letter go slap on the mat if there is nobody at home to hear it?

No, but a rubber cheque drawn against non-existent author earnings will bounce.