I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
タグ: writers-and-writing

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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading
タグ: william-stafford, the-trouble-with-reading, reading, goats, books
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
タグ: poetry
. . . On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?
タグ: poetry
This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us all one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell something better about to happen.
タグ: poets, poetry
I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
タグ: poetry
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