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dayraven:

Works by Ginny Grayson

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It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing...

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It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it.

—Louise Glück, from “Education of the Poet” in Proofs & Theories

(Of all the essays in this book, this one I would quote in full if I could. I would send it to you via paper plane or tuck it into the back pocket of your jeans…)

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annmuddy:

really beautiful thread on paper works by emily barletta

ohHhhhhh this is so relevant to my interests.

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I keep telling everyone whenever I get a chance that it took 60 million years to make a human eye. And before that even, it was just a little cell at the bottom of the ocean that was sensitive to light. Just think of how complicated and truly magnificent a human being is. When you think of all we are capable of—being able to love each other, and being willing to do something good in the world for no recognition…I am not saying there are not people who want to step over each other, who want to maim and kill, but that is a perversion of the beautiful things human beings are made for.

There are all sorts of ways people try to stay connected, try not to live in hate. Religion may be one of them, but for me the central thing is the writing. The art itself. Putting my intelligence and my humanity to the best possible use, and I get better because I am doing it. The writing teaches me that I can’t just reach some little plateau and say that’s it, this is the place. It is always a search.
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