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Find Your Writing Voice: How to write more like your amazing self, for books, blog posts, and email

by Chris Brogan

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Nov 15, 2020 08:28PM

“...what delights the poet is 'unintelligibility' ...(where) language doesn't sound like anything anyone could possibly say in 'real life' or in 'real philosophy.”
― Helen Vendler, Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

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“Specific, definite, concrete, particular details—these are the life of fiction. Details (as every good liar knows) are the stuff of persuasiveness.”
― Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft

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“quotation from Maya Angelou emblazoned across the side of the building: “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

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“Charting how white supremacy evolved during Reconstruction and Redemption is crucial to understanding in what forms it continues to manifest itself today.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

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“SONG OF QUIETNESS

Drink deep, drink deep of quietness,
And on the margins of the sea
Remember not thine old distress
Nor all the miseries to be.
Calmer than mists, and cold
As they, that fold on fold
Up the dim valley are rolled,
Learn thou to be.”
― Robinson Jeffers

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