Category: ‘Uncategorized’
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-worthy and wonderful, take 2
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- October 26th, 2009
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"But if the novel is not the literal truth, then it is true in atmosphere, feeling, more 'true' than this record."
-Doris Lessing -
"It's more than serendipity. It's more than coincidence. There's a sense of intelligence to it. This isn't just random magic, this is magic for our benefit. Things are arranged with a red line drawn under it saying 'Pay Attention To This.'”
-Ken Kesey -
"...it is falsely assumed that if you write poetry - a wholly narcissistic act - you are sensitive to others. It is enough that a poet be sensitive to him- or herself."
-Billy Collins -
"...even hunger can become a space to live in."
-Carl Phillips, "Civilization" -
"The poem is what we have in mind inside our language."
-Marie Ponsot -
"It lets you love the real, ruinous world. You don't have to say whether it's good or bad. You can just love it."
-Marie Ponsot -
"It's our job to have this kind of good time."
-Marie Ponsot -
"It would be my great dream to tell a truth."
-Marie Ponsot -
"You have to learn to ignore it, or you'll never walk again."
-Miki Howald -
"Writing is a studio art, not an academic thing."
-Janet Desaulniers -
"Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."
-Marge Piercy, "For the young who want to" -
"Poems are an event, too - a form of action."
-unknown, in a review of Rosellen Brown's poetry, c. 1970s -
"We write to change the world."
-Dorothy Allison -
"My ambition is... oh, honey, my ambition is to live forever."
-Dorothy Allison
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artists/collections
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- October 21st, 2009
I’d eventually like to use this site to showcase some of my visual work as well. Kristen Kieffer, a favorite potter of mine, has a wonderful blog in which she posts photos of objects she loves/owns, or images that inspire her. Kristen, of course, is an established and talented ceramicist, so I’m definitely not comparing myself in that vein, but I love her idea of the kind of open, shared notebook of inspiration, whimsy, and conglomeration of quotations, descriptions, pictures, pictures! … Read more »
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epigraph-worthy and/or wonderful
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- September 9th, 2009
Here are some of my favorite quotations. I’ve been writing them down in all sort of notebooks and files, and I just keep adding new ones. I’m going to try to list them all here. Rad. … Read more »
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inaugural blog
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- August 21st, 2009
allo from the hardcore midwest – I’m writing from my parents’ camper, parked alongside their house in a l’il gravel-pit-ish that my dad made himself, I think. I’m visiting the homestate to see my favorite grandfather, who has cancer. I will be visiting a lot. and staying in said camper, primarily as a respite from 2 Dogs + 3 Cats, et al. camper has wi-fi … Read more »