Bewildered Quote by William Carlos Williams

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner

“A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who wont overcome them. There is liberty in confession and freedom…

— Lecrea

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he…

— Jacques Barzun

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

— Gautama Buddha

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant…

— Horace

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of…

— Bertrand Russell

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

— Euripides

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he…

— Robert Creeley

He who hesitates is lost

— Anonymous

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

— William Wrigley, Jr