Nobel Prize winning Poet, Wislawa Szymborska, died today at the age of 88. Her poetry is shockingly beautiful and moving. This is my favorite of her works.
A Few Words On The Soul
We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.
Sometimes
it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.
“In the universe,
there are things that are known,
and things that are unknown, and in between,
there are doors.”
If you are to write well you must come to terms with the enormous and powerful part of your nature which lies behind the threshold of immediate knowledge.
- Dorothea Brande, Becoming A Writer, pg. 151
Inspired by Elmore’s Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, The Guardian asked noted authors about their rules for writing fiction, which include these indispensable tips:
Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray.
There are two parts, both are fantastic.
Novel Poster has taken classic world literature and used the text to create negative space art.
Brilliant idea.
Gorgeous product. I want one (Actually, several all of them).
My favorite Vegan food site. The recipes are delicious and the food photography puts me in a perpetual state of hunger.
Fascinating Tedx talk by Jacques Vallée in Brussels on A Theory of Everything(Else).
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
