n o n c o n f o r m i t y
It is in the impartial practice of life, if anywhere, that the promise of perfection for his art can be found rather than in the absurd formulas trying to prescribe this or that particular method of technique or conception. Let him mature the strength of his imagination among the things of this earth ....
—Joseph Conrad, from an essay entitled "Books" (1905)
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Poets & Writers
The Nobel Prize in Literature
...ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? —Rainer Maria Rilke
♦noun: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or 
sentences
♦noun: (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
♦noun: the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
♦noun: something that joins or connects
♦noun: the state of being joined together
♦noun: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
