01-12-2020, 01:08 PM
I'll tell you the way, Useless. There are three steps: absorb, digest, improvise. And keep silence. Though you can say whatever you want. The first importance is you. You can't get away from that personal, that's the target in you. Write that first. Everything has to come from you. The wronger you are the more novel you are. You got that wrong going for you. Now make it witchy. Put all that's what's of you into the skill and the craft and the tradition, put you right there in it. And don't apologize. And don't show no respect for anything, and use that tradition shamelessly. Magpiety. You dig?
Just force it. There aint no crime against playing force on no imagination.
William Blake say Christ is Imagination. The anointed one. Wallace Stevens had said God and the imagination are one. One not even one. . . . Write about a tent out in the yard when you was a kid. Put all the smells and musical sounds in it. Make sense, don't make sense. Create it. . . That's all a poet is to do. . . .
If you are never inspired, you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't need to write. Your apathy is inspiration, else you wouldnt be here. There wouldnt be any poetry in your life and you'd be on another site. Philosophy or psychology or physics or something. You wouldn't have posted if you didn't have inspiration. And if you don't have anything to say, it's no loss to you if you have no inspiration to write. Else just write. Write in spite and despite.
Just force it. There aint no crime against playing force on no imagination.
William Blake say Christ is Imagination. The anointed one. Wallace Stevens had said God and the imagination are one. One not even one. . . . Write about a tent out in the yard when you was a kid. Put all the smells and musical sounds in it. Make sense, don't make sense. Create it. . . That's all a poet is to do. . . .
If you are never inspired, you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't need to write. Your apathy is inspiration, else you wouldnt be here. There wouldnt be any poetry in your life and you'd be on another site. Philosophy or psychology or physics or something. You wouldn't have posted if you didn't have inspiration. And if you don't have anything to say, it's no loss to you if you have no inspiration to write. Else just write. Write in spite and despite.