"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."

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I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

— W. H. Auden