Fromย Leonard Cohen: Iโm Your Man (2005):
If it is your destiny to be this laborer called a writer, you know that youโve got to go to work every day, but you also know thatย youโre not gonna get it every day. You have to be prepared, but you really donโt command the enterprise.
Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, you know, expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise โ we somehow embrace the notionย that this vale of tears, that itโs perfectable โ youโre not gonna get it all straight.
I found thatย things got a lot easier when I no longer expected to winโฆ.
You understand that, you abandon your masterpiece, and you sink into the real masterpieceโฆ
And also: โYou have to write down what youโre going to abandon.โย