“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs…
Where does real poetry live?
WOW by Hafiz, as translated by Daniel Ladinsky Where does the real poetry Come from? From the amorous sighs In…
Be and be better. For they existed.
When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in…
Poetry is Not a Luxury
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality…
Everything is Writable
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and…
Make Wild Messes
“Your day's work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, 'When I write I feel…
The Hard Work of Writing
“Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just…
There’s Nothing to Writing…
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
Untold Stories
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
my business is the analysis of feeling
“…I am writing poems and they take the marrow of my energy. Things stir and buzz in my mind but…
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