"I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys paint upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence, there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particular good sentence or [...]
Category: Life and Literature
Video: “Say you won’t let go”
One can easily fall in love with this song... The melody is really good, and the lyrics, though simple, ring true. This is clearly my favorite song for 2016. (:-) May we all find this kind of ideal.)
The personal narrative
I got this idea after reading Vivian Gornick's "The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative." I'm starting to explore this avenue." And I quote: "The writing we call personal narrative is written by people who, in essence, are imagining only themselves; in relation to the subject in hand. The connection is an [...]
Love at first sight
I agree with Victor Hugo on this one...there is something about the whole love-at-first-sight thing that inspires poetry. Or quotes such as this one. Perhaps it is much better to understand what VH means when you have had this "moment". It burns deep into your heart, and it is unlikely to be forgotten, this [...]
