Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Which are you? he asked the silver squiggle. Dark dead yin or brilliant living yang?
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
“We are made from the dust of dead stars.”
Christopher Paolini • To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
Neil Gaiman • The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
'No, what?' I would say. '
A piece of dust.'
Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
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... See more. . . how it can mark a dead man’s thoughts for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.