I work like a gardener… Things come slowly… Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water… Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.
Joan Miro
Tag Archives: Quotes
Nr.9 – 2024.05.10
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow – whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.
Kurt Vonnegut
Nr.7 – 2024.05.08
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
Ernest Hemingway
Nr.6 – 2024.05.07
I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.
Joan Didion
Nr.5 – 2024.05.06
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut
Nr.4 – 2024.05.04
As T. S. Eliot once observed, in a world of fugitives, the person who is headed in the right direction will appear to be running away.
from “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, James Hollis
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