Poetry / Prose / Wordsmithery
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
... See more“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
“It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Disgrace Quotes by J.M. Coetzee
Craft Is the Antidote to Slop
"The devil’s oldest strategy is, of course, promising godlike creation without godlike effort." https://t.co/3LMU326wSe
“My visions of a future I can create have been honed by the lessons of my limitations…I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a a mark upon all of my life’s decisions and actions…It helps shape the words I speak, the ways I love, my politic of action, the strength of my vision and purpose,
... See moreWhen I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
Langston Hughes: “Harlem”
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