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I'm about to dive into National Novel Writing Month on November 1st. Yes, that's right, a novel in a month, 50,000 words and have I mentioned I don't really have any compelling ideas for plot and characters yet? This quote from Samuel Beckett is definitely going to be my mantra for this project:
Try. Fail. Try better. Fail again.
I hope inspiration strikes soon.
Found as you scroll through the website of Open Books: A Poem Emporium
a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle, Washington.
"The HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE
The HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE"
--Charles Olson
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson
"For me, everything in poetry should be out of place."
--Anna Akhmatova
"One reads poetry with one's nerves." --Wallace Stevens
"Successions of words are so agreeable." --Gertrude Stein
"Art is about experience (in the same sense that a cat indoors is "about" the house). --Allen Grossman
"Every poem has the right to ask for a new poetics."
--Anna Swir
"A poem is untoward." --Heather McHugh
"With a changing key
You unlock the house where
The snow of what's silenced drifts." --Paul Celan
