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Carl Phillips's "Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back"
Frost describes his own process of making poetry in a very similar fashion—as a kind of homecoming to a lost part of himself. “For me,” he says, “the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.”
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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- There’s also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing process—facts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlines—until the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch, ... See more
from A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
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