And a softness came from the starlight and filled me to the bone. ~ Willam Butler Yeats, from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems For more on the life of Yeats, here’s a fascinating biography and a number of poems. Started my day reading about his life and a number of his poems. […]
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Brother, Electric
We’ve got rain in the forecast for tonight and I’m hoping it arrives. The break from the heat is so welcome especially since I just spent five days in Utah where the air was so parched and nasty I couldn’t wait to return to Oregon. Trouble was it was 97 when we landed. Color me […]
Read the rest of this entry »I disappeared into books when I was very young
Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised me was there was another side to the forest of stories and the solitude, and that I came out and met other people there. Writers are solitaries by […]
Read the rest of this entry »Novels change us from within
In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book we find ourselves slighting altered as human beings. Novels change us from within. ~ Donna Tartt […]
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Bring me all your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them in a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. ~ Langston Hughes
Read the rest of this entry »…I want him to have a bit of magic in his prose style, a bit of unobtrusive poetry.
…I want him to have a bit of magic in his prose style, a bit of unobtrusive poetry. I want to have words and phrases really sing. And I like an attitude of wryness, realism, the sense of inevitability. I think that writing—good writing—should be like listening to music, where you pick out the themes, […]
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Earlier I was posting on Facebook about how we live in terrifying times and when reality feels unbearable I launch into my coping methods, and I don’t know about you, but these days my coping tools are multiplying out of necessity. Which leads me to the art the internet offers up with such generosity. Because […]
Read the rest of this entry »Could I put those starry deeps…
Could I put those starry deeps and lamplighted elms into words that sang like the nightwind now rinsing my senses and shivering the spring leaves? ~ Donald Newlove ~ I’ve written more about Newlove’s work here.
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