The best piece of writing advice I ever ignored was to write every day. Boy, did I ignore this advice. I heard it dozens of times, from writers I admired, but I didn’t start doing it until I got to … Continue reading →
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. — Leonard Bernstein Continue reading →
from that Ted Kooser Book. Slow going reading this book because it is packed to the brim with gems like this and Ted Kooser thinking about poetry from all different directions. Artichoke O heart weighed down by so many wings. … Continue reading →
Oh, watch the day once again hurry off • And the sun bathe itself in water Continue reading →
To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. – Mary Oliver Continue reading →
Finish each day and be done with it…You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it well and serenely.
