“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm, philosopher, author, sociologist
via “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Art of Quotation
Jack Kerouac — The Vale of Soul-Making
So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger—because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. — Jack Kerouac
Paul Auster — The Vale of Soul-Making
The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle. — Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy. (Penguin Classics; Reissue edition, March 28, 2006) Originally published 1987.
Clarice Lispector — The Vale of Soul-Making
In order to write I must place myself into the void. In this void is where I exist intuitively. But it’s a terribly dangerous void: it’s where I wring out blood. I’m a writer who fears the snares of words: the words I say hide others—which? maybe I’ll say them. Writing is a stone cast […]
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.” — Art of Quotation
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.” Billy Collins, poet, writing
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Fernando Pessoa – Pour être grand, sois entier… — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Pour être grand, sois entier : rien En toi n’exagère ou n’exclus. Sois tout en chaque chose. Mets tout ce que tu es Dans le plus petit de tes actes. Ainsi en chaque lac brille la lune entière Pour la raison qu’elle vit haut. * Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Para ser grande, sê […]
via Fernando Pessoa – Pour être grand, sois entier… — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
[107] Persona Of A Writer — Smoke words every day.
All of our thoughts, ideas, ideologies and viewpoints are not real or at least, not our own. All of these are things that sound admirable/respectable. These are things that we steal from films, books and other personalities to form our own. Just because we think we understand these ideas and have no logical argument against […]
Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic
Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.
via Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic
Finding the Structure of the World
… I’m thinking structures. I’ve always taken it for granted that in literary writing content and form are intertwined, one. Now I’m examining my belief. Iain says that the writer is a person who finds, rather than makes, structures. “I began to see the pattern of the living city in myth,” he tells me. “If you look, you can see the structures that lie underneath.”
“Is this how we write? By seeing? By finding?” “I think so.”
“Then, to write an epic is to see the structure of one’s city or of one’s life as epic?” …
Extracted from: Ian Sinclair an Interview with Kathy Acker in – ‘Writing as Magic in London in Its Summer: Iain Sinclair and the Crafting of Place.’
Read the full interview at: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-4-issue-3-summer-2009/writing-as-magic-in-london-in-its-summer/
Book Review: ‘The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna’ — Cafe Dissensus Everyday
By Gaurav J. Pathania – The café becomes a site of enunciation of identity, lived experience, and contested meaning, bringing the city inside, but also shielding its regulars from the “crowd” and the “masses” outside.
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