Fear and writing

Wordly Inspiration for these weeks when I'm not able to get my thoughts clear. Fear from the pandemic is wreaking havoc with our bodies and minds, so no new posts at the moment. I hope soon to be able to focus.

Unfortunately, I am unable to find the source, but says everything I want to tell myself.



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From Georgia O'Keeffe

Wordly Inspiration from Georgia O'Keeffe's letter to Sherwood Anderson, in response to the doubts he expressed about his own writing:

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you..."

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From Toni Morrison

Introducing Wordly Inspiration, an occasional series of words and writing.

Our first Wordly Inspiration comes from Toni Morrison from her Nobel prize acceptance speech in 1993:

"Word-work is sublime … because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

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TATKOP 120

There Are Two Kinds Of People: those who know everything and those who know they know very little.

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