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Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "In A Dream,"

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perfectfeelings

“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”

— Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

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Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1914)

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undinesea

You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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muirin007

This is one of the funniest scenes in gothic literature and the fact that this is verbatim from the novel is incredibly underrated.

#mary shelley #frankenstein #art

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Many people ask the question of how much time it really takes to write a book and they're surprised to hear us say, quite honestly, that one solid hour of concentration everyday may be enough. Think about it. A page a day, 365 pages a year is certainly enough for a first draft. Sometimes the worst thing you can do is allot too much time--time for fussing over individual words, time for rewriting perfectly functional sentences, for dallying on the internet or in the dictionary, in the bathroom, in the kitchen. One hour with your best energy everyday can force you to focus, to get your sentences down on paper because there is no more time. It may be the most productive hour in your entire day, the one you think about and take notes for. One hour.

-Marge Piercy and Ira Wood, So You Want to Write

I'm reminded of Jane Cleland's advice on writing 1 page a day through 3 10-minute intervals, too!

#marge piercy #so you want to write #quote

apoemaday

To Be of Use

by Marge Piercy

The people I love best jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

#marge piercy #poetry #poem

nomorechoirs

fr. “For the young who want to” by Marge Piercy

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meganwhalenturner

For the young who want to

BY MARGE PIERCY

Talent is what they say

you have after the novel

is published and favorably

reviewed. Beforehand what

you have is a tedious

delusion, a hobby like knitting.

Work is what you have done

after the play is produced

and the audience claps.

Before that friends keep asking

when you are planning to go

out and get a job.

Genius is what they know you

had after the third volume

of remarkable poems. Earlier

they accuse you of withdrawing,

ask why you don’t have a baby,

call you a bum.

The reason people want M.F.A.’s,

take workshops with fancy names

when all you can really

learn is a few techniques,

typing instructions and some-

body else’s mannerisms

is that every artist lacks

a license to hang on the wall

like your optician, your vet

proving you may be a clumsy sadist

whose fillings fall into the stew

but you’re certified a dentist.

The real writer is one

who really writes. Talent

is an invention like phlogiston

after the fact of fire.

Work is its own cure. You have to

like it better than being loved.

Copyright Credit: Marge Piercy, “For the young who want to” from Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982). First appeared in Mother Jones V, no. 4 (May 1980). Copyright © 1980, 1982 by Marge Piercy and Middlemarsh, Inc. Used by permission of the Wallace Literary Agency, Inc.

Source: Circles on the Water (Alfred A. Knopf, 1982)

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Denise Levertov, October 24, 1923 – December 20, 1997.

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Denise Levertov por Nancy Carrick Holbert, 1967

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derangedrhythms

Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet: Wanting the Moon; from 'A Cloak'

#denise levertov #quote #poetry

nobrashfestivity

The Secret By Denise Levertov

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

I who don’t know the secret wrote the line. They told me

(through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even

what line it was. No doubt by now, more than a week later, they have forgotten the secret,

the line, the name of the poem. I love them for finding what I can’t find,

and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that

a thousand times, till death finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines

in other happenings. And for wanting to know it, for

assuming there is such a secret, yes, for that most of all.

#Denise Levertov #poetry #poem

majestativa

The words darkened on the page as we sank into each other.

We are ink & blood.

— Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, (1977)

#Erica Jong #quote #poetry

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Erica Jong | Where It Begins

#erica jong #quote #poetry #sgsc

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Erica Jong, from a poem titled "To John Keats," featured in Loveroot: Poems, originally published in 1975

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gennsoup

If the joy house I inhabit must be a house of my own making, I accept that making.

Erica Jong, Testament (Or, Homage to Walt Whitman)

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