“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry. Circa 1917.
There isn’t a better book to read in October than Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary. Oh, it is extraordinary (in the full pulse of the word)!
“There’s no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
The struggle to harness one’s creativity is universal and timeless. It’s a constant fight. Battle on, friends!
Plath. Ibsen. Woolf.
Dickinson.
Bloomsbury. Chekhov.
Millay.
Modernism. Tolstoy.
And Charles Chaplin.
Etc.
What are you reading this month?
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”-Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, 1923. (Died 11 October 1963).
Ted Hughes Quote
I’m only sharing three links today, but they are all worthy of your time.
Robin Hood by Charlotte Harding, circa 1903.
Ophelia by John William Waterhouse, 1910.
Poet Wallace Stevens was born on 2 October 1879.
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“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”
“One must read poetry with one’s nerves.”
“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
E.B. White died on 1 October 1985:
E.B. White, whilst at Cornell University
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”-E.B. White
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