I've always loved the written word. I find comfort in reading someone else's ideas and sharing a part of their knowledge and imagination. I was once asked "What reward do you get from reading?". I decided my (most succinct) response was that the moment the words on the page resonate in your head and communicate something to you in a way you would never have thought of yourself, I'm hooked.
John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden, 'Una's death cut the earth from under Samuel's feet... opened his defended keep and let in old age.' I think that's a really beautiful (accurate) description. I know all these words but would never string them together like that!
There are some poems I know off by heart - not because I tried to learn them but because I read and re-read them and at some point they seeped into my soul and wrote themselves on it. W.H.Auden, Carol Ann Duffy, Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin... I am stuck with their thoughts forever, now ;) If you sliced my soul very thinly you could read them in it, like words in a stick of seaside candy.
Are there phrases or poems that you've kept as mental keepsakes? Which ones? I like that my brain has something stored away to read at all times :) Like a little nest made from twigs of words!
ladyscarlet posted on Aug 24, 2007
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silverwhisper said on Aug 24, 2007....
the one that usually sticks with me was penned by wordsworth and appears in the preface to 1780's lyrical ballads, which featured the poetry of him as well as of his friend, samuel taylor coleridge.
wordsworth quoth:
poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion, recollected in tranquility.
i've always been fond of this quotations: it marries the importance of inspiration with that of craft, of wordsmithing.
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ladyscarlet said on Aug 24, 2007....
It's true, that's beautiful :) x -
beyondtheveil said on Aug 24, 2007....
Paraphrased from Robert Heinlein-
There was never a woman born, regardless of what the toil and years had done to her emaciated body, that wasn't eighteen in her heart. Look at her!
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rupert7 said on Aug 24, 2007....
His smile slipped on the ice of her eyes and almost fell. -
Lucytorial said on Aug 25, 2007....
I'm a word hoarder, I have a bookcase that is 12 feet long and six feet high and its chockers with books, poetry, fiction, non fiction, my writing even... I love to hoard words.
There are some words that I simply adore from Nick Cave, his novel the ass and the angel.... wow! some of the prose in there just leaves me breathless.
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ladyscarlet said on Aug 27, 2007....
ah, see, so many beautiful word combinations I didn't know ;) lucytorial, I want your bookcase. in my life.
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