From
http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/05/jealous_designer/

"I have a good if perilous middle-class existence. And so do you. But in our hearts, if we are artists, we are hungry and desperate. That is utterly normal. That is our condition. That ( Read more... )

Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles.
Victim of your folly.

Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from Songs of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan.

http://xkcd.com/c209.html