You Make Something

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You make something from the things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something… ~ Ernest Hemingway

A Writer’s Job Is Ingoing

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About nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We have been taught to be ashamed of not being outgoing. But a writer’s job is ingoing. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

As Necessary As Bread

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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver

Read Interesting Minds

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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut