Sublime

5. Don’t worry about punctuation, spelling, grammar.

she regaled me with stories about her extraordinary creative process. She told me that when she was a child growing up on a farm in rural Virginia, she would be out working in the fields when she would sometimes hear a poem coming toward her—hear it rushing across the landscape at her, like a galloping horse. Whenever this happened, she knew

We must continue to work the compost pile, enriching it and making it fertile so that something beautiful may bloom

Before we can be poets, we must practice; imitation is a very good way of investigating the real thing.

To create movement for a musician who was blocked, we offered him a small task: write just one line every day.

So our job as writers is not to diddle around our whole lives in the dot but to take one big step out of it and sink into the big sky and write from there. Let everything run through us and grab as much as we can of it with a pen and paper. Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours—your own wild mind.