Why I Write – cont.: What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless. – Jane Hirshfield Thank you so very much Peter – for bringing this great interview with Jane Hirshfield to my attention! Hirshfield says: Poems foment revolutions of…
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a divine source of inspiration …?
Yesterday I presented Terry Tempest Williams’ essay “Why I Write”, and asked you to reflect upon your own reasons for writing. I got some very good accounts, but none of you mentioned the Muses, our divine source of inspiration … … can it be that beauty (like Robinson suggested) is totally out of the question?…
Why I Write
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. … … I write to honor beauty … So many good reasons…
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