Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)