You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother … - John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother …
- John Berryman
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature. - John Berryman
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
something has been said for sobriety but very little. - John Berryman
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. - John Berryman
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort. - John Berryman
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources. - John Berryman
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie. - John Berryman
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. - John Berryman
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead y… - John Berryman
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead y…
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