kisses are a better fate than wisdom

kisses are a better fate than wisdom... 

for life's not a paragraph...

 and death i think is no parenthesis 

                   
e e cummings 

Integrity - Frank O'Hara

Fantasy and The Birth of Creative Work

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. ~ Carl Jung

Mapping our direction

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
- John Berryman

Emerson on Imagination

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First An Amateur

Carry the beautiful with you

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day e e cummings

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” 

~e e cummings

Quote Of The Day - e e cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing

than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”

 ~e e cummings

cummungs Quote of the Day

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e e cummings

Art Quote of the Day

Art is a collaboration between God and the 
artist, and the less the artist does the better.
 - Andre Gide 

The Creative Mind of William Carlos Williams at Work

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”  - William Carlos Williams

WCW Advice

“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.”  - William Carlos Williams

A Poet's Eyes

“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”  - William Carlos Williams

Be About Making

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. - e e cummings

It Cannot Always Be Night

Learning Patience and Persistence

"I have a vision of the poems I would write, but do not. When will they come?" - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


Oh, how I've been here...

The Courage to Not Doubt

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 

~Sylvia Plath

Dreams

Anne Sexton

                   
 In a dream you are never eighty.


This is a particular interesting  quote to me because I cannot recall the last time I had a dream in which I did not appear younger then present.  While I'm not eighty it's a peculiar occurrence that in many of my dreams I will appear much younger then I am... sometimes going back to school years but I almost always conduct myself in the dreams as an adult. Others around me often appear as adult age but not myself.  Sometimes my wife is in them too and we both are much younger but function as adults. Strange phenomena but  when seeing this quote by Sexton it called this to mind.