Friday, January 16, 2004
Poetry as journal?
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away." Carl Sandburg
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
STUCK! A few words on writer's block...
"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze you unfortunate brain so as to find a word."-Gustave Flaubert My favorite fountain pen had fallen out of my purse and under the front wheel of the car when the kids and I got home last night. I am so glad I...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
This is a quote for all the skeptics who might question blogging...
...and whether or not bloggers are writers who will amount to anything as writers... "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."-Cicero(106BC-43BC)
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004
There are writers whose prose reads like poetry....
"Always be a poet, even in prose."-Charles Baudelaire One of my favorite children's authors writes novels that read like poetry---The author is Gary Paulsen, and for me the book that unfolds most like an incredibly rich poem is The Winter Room.
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Monday, January 12, 2004
...time away from the world to be a writer...
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made." Gore Vidal Usually the phrase 'time away from the world' brings up images of a mountain retreat for days and weeks of solitude. Or an escape to a seaside...
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