Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
~N. Scott Momaday
A journal is to a writer as a sketchpad is to an artist.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
~N. Scott Momaday
I believe both fame and obscurity can be double edged swords. With the former the author can be acknowledged by admirers, publisher, and society. The drawback is the expectations people have about the author's work. He/she is expected to churn out a best seller all the time. That task can be daunting and unreasonable.
There are many fine authors who works, for different reasons, do not get the notoriety that they could and should. Conventions of the times, the writing style of the author, gender, and lack of resources are some things that may play a role in an author's lack of fame. Some chose to write in obscurity so not to get caught up in the glitz and glamor of a literary star.
I am working on a chapbook of poetry that I want to have published. If notoriety comes, fine. If not, I'm fine with that also. To me if one person is affected by my work, I'm pleased.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
~Andre Breton, Poet (1896-1966)
Dante Alighieri
Mary Biddinger
Sterling A. Brown
G. K. Chesterton
Robert Creeley
Countee Cullen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy Harjo
Joseph Heller
Randall Jarrell
Adrienne Rich
Theodore Roethke
Charles Simic
Gary Snyder
Walt Whitman
WILFRED OWEN
Born March 18, 1893
One of the leading poets of the First World War
Influences- the bible, the Romantic poets, particularly William Wordsworth and John Yeats.
Verse was about the horrors of trench and gas warfare.
Killed in action November 4, 1918 at age 25.
Regarded my many as the greatest poet of WWI.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. ~N. Scott Momaday