When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
Interpretation
The quote describes the creative process where inspiration strikes and poetry flows naturally from the mind.
Franz Wright expresses the profound experience of creativity, where certain moods trigger an internal dialogue that elevates language to a remarkable quality. In these moments, the poet feels a spontaneous generation of poetic lines and stanzas, which seem to emerge fully formed, illustrating the beauty and mystery of artistic inspiration.
In practice
In a poetry workshop, when discussing the spontaneous nature of writing.
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.
It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
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