“A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
—Robert Frost
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#We who write #poetry #quoted
#We who write #poetry #quoted
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
@1 week ago with 1584 notes(via quote-book)
#quoted
"One of the great delights of poetry is that when you’re really functioning, you’re tapping the unconscious in a way that is distinct from the ordinary, the customary use of the mind in daily life. You’re somehow cracking the shell separating you from the unknown."
Stanley Kunitz, The Wild Braid (via litverve)
@1 week ago with 47 notes(via apoetreflects)
#quoted
"I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."
Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (via writersbloqinc)
@1 week ago with 975 notes(Source: sincerely-yoursnikkit, via writersbloqinc)
#quoted #optimism #oh woolf!
"To hold a pen is to be at war."
Voltaire, Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d’Argental, 1748.
I wish I had a better source for this than Wikiquote. Alas, it shall have to suffice.
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