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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Sunday Snippets
The following are the few quotes that made me think during the recent few days. I figured I'd enter them in my blog.
 On Love:
I think this is the subject which evokes the strongest and yet most varied ideas and thoughts that sometimes clash.
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”
Haruki Murakami
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
Milan Kundera
Importance of Action:
“In the beginning was the Word.” Western civilization rests upon those words. And yet there’s a lively group of thinkers who believe that in the beginning was the ACT. That nothing can precede action—no breath before act, no pervasive love before some kind of act.”
Mary Ruefle
On Friendship:
“Otters sleep floating on their backs, sometimes holding paws with their friends so they don’t drift apart.”
Reader’s Digest - February 2016
About the belief usually pushed on writers as “Write what you know”:
"Sometimes, you can use a particular experience as a start point in your story, but many times, you'll find yourself holding on to the "reality" of the experience because you want to be "true " to the situation or incident. And you've got to let the "reality" go so you can dramatize it effectively. "Who did what" and "Where it happened" usually end up as a thin story with little or no dramatic value."
Syd Field--The Screenwriter's Workbook… Where the Writer Begins, Page 8 |
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