“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...
It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
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between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...
It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
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“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.”
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
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