WORDS OF WISDOM

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

~Edgar Allan Poe

AUTUMN IS COMING

 

CURRENT READING

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

The bible is very resonant.  It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

~Patti Smith 

A PLACE IN TIME

It's too bad we don't have time machines to transport us back in time-or into the future.  There are periods in my life I wish I could have put into a bottle and kept. When I read a story or a novel, I envision myself being there. 

I was reading one of Edgar Allan Poe's stories his description of English and French architecture. I felt like I was walking beside him as his sidekick. That's how real it felt. When I use my imagination it can feel as if I'm there. It also points out why reading and writing go hand in hand.  Writers are also readers!

OTHER INFLUENCES

I posted previously my main writing influences. Here are some more.

Jack Kerouac, Leslie Feinberg, Henri Nouwen, Edward Gorey, Bram Stoker, Plato, William Shakespeare, John Milton, James Baldwin, Rita Dove. 

WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MET THEM

People dead or alive I would love to meet

Jesus

Martin Luther King

William Tyndale

Sylvia Plath

Frederick Douglass

Booker T. Washington

William Shakespeare

Jim Morrison

George Washington Carver

BOOKS HAVE LIFE

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

~Stephane Mallarme, French Poet (1842-1898)

FAVORITE AUTHORS

MY FIVE FAVORITE AUTHORS

1. Edgar Allan Poe

2. Langston Hughes

3. Sylvia Plath

4. Paul Laurence Dunbar

5. Herman Melville 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

 WILLIAMSPORT- Maryland, Pennsylvania

WORDS OF WISDOM

 Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

~Thomas Gray, Poet (1716-1771)

REMEMBER!

 

HOPE

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

 You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

~Virginia Woolf, Author, (1882-1941)

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

WORCESTER- Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

SALISBURY- Connecticut, Maryland,  New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina

HAVE DONE THIS

 

INTERESTING TAKE

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explore?

~Langston Hughes