How do I know what I think until I see what I say? –E.M. Forster

Musings

Some of my favorite quotes

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
–E.M. Forster

I write to find out what I'm thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things
–Julia Alvarez

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry
W.B. Yeats

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artists says a hard thing in a simple way.
–Charles Bukowski

Art at its deepest level, is about preserving the world.
–Donald Anderson

If I had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.
–Cynthia Ozick

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you
–Ray Bradbury



    

Who Do You Know?

Can you identify the poets in the banner above?

A. “I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”

B. “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

C. “The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”

D. “I am a mystery to myself. I count on it never being solved.”

E. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

F. “I dwell in possibility...”

G. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”