I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the beauty and physicality of words, highlighting their ability to evoke emotions and sensations.
Fernando Pessoa's quote reflects a deep appreciation for the power of language. He perceives words not merely as abstract symbols but as vivid, corporeal entities that carry sensory experiences and emotional resonance. This perspective emphasizes the artistic and evocative qualities of words, suggesting that they can draw you in and create a tangible connection to thoughts and feelings.
In practice
This quote can be used in a poetry workshop to inspire participants to appreciate the depth of language.
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply canβt be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
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