Sentences that sing
Beautiful, devasting sentences of all kinds
Sentences that sing
Susan Sontag believed that to think seriously was an act of resistance. She wrote about photography, illness, war, beauty, always from the inside of the question, never above it. What I love about her is the hunger. She wanted to understand everything and she wasn’t embarrassed about that.
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I just wanted to remember my friends, my preferences, what a light switch was.
“The colours of Christmas have been exterminated and New Year resolutions are seeping away in to grey and hopeless damp. No colour anywhere. Then to the sound of trumpets in thrusts March. Triumphant. Purple fields, the trees still black and naked, the green shoots of life piercing and rising-up through the earth. It is sexy, this surge of sap.
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How to Write
Dana Gioia
People are poetry. Or rather, poetry is people. And sometimes I'm sad or mad or tired or annoyed, but I love you I love you I love you I love you.
Carina • If love is in the air
I had a strange sensation this morning, an ‘I want to write a poem’ feeling but then I realised I wanted to write a poem I’ve already written several times. For what it’s worth, I think its ok to repeat yourself, I kind of enjoy that in other writers - sitting with them as they loop around the same intractable problem, but the desire made me read... See more
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