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Rolando Andrés Ramos

Rolando Andrés Ramos

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    Month: September 2019

    The Craft Of Writing Is The Craft Of Thinking

    I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago—the craft of writing… Read more “The Craft Of Writing Is The Craft Of Thinking”

    September 30, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Verbs Over Nouns

    So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair.… Read more “Verbs Over Nouns”

    September 30, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Loose And Useless Words Must Be Discarded

    Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose… Read more “Loose And Useless Words Must Be Discarded”

    September 30, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    There Is No Book So Bad…

    There is no book so bad…that it does not have something good in it. Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available… Read more “There Is No Book So Bad…”

    September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Translating Is Like Looking At A Tapestry From The Wrong Side

    Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong… Read more “Translating Is Like Looking At A Tapestry From The Wrong Side”

    September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Didn’t Have A Clue About Women, But Sure Could Plot

    I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot. Goodreads.com.… Read more “Didn’t Have A Clue About Women, But Sure Could Plot”

    September 29, 2019January 22, 2020 by Rolandoramos

    The Tongue Of The Mind

    The pen is the tongue of the mind. Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

    September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    The Reason For The Unreason is Beauty

    The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel… Read more “The Reason For The Unreason is Beauty”

    September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Poet Or Historian, Who Will You Be Today?

    It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were,… Read more “Poet Or Historian, Who Will You Be Today?”

    September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Attempt The Absurd

    In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed… Read more “Attempt The Absurd”

    September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    The English Language Is Foxy And Flexible

    Jonathan Swift mounted a lifelong attempt to ‘fix our language forever’—no critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the… Read more “The English Language Is Foxy And Flexible”

    September 28, 2019September 29, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Always Think Of Your Calling As A Privilege

    As a writer, you are going to confronted with a bewildering world of fascinations—so never become jaded or world-weary, and always think of your calling as a… Read more “Always Think Of Your Calling As A Privilege”

    September 28, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    There Is Only One Plot

    There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem. Goodreads.com.… Read more “There Is Only One Plot”

    September 27, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    What A Writer Does To People

    … we must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable… Read more “What A Writer Does To People”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Libraries Are Hope For The Future

    The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. Goodreads.com. (2019). T.S. Eliot Quotes (Author of… Read more “Libraries Are Hope For The Future”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Poetry Can Communicate Before It Is Understood

    Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Goodreads.com. (2019). T.S. Eliot Quotes (Author of The Waste Land and Other Poems). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18540.T_S_Eliot [Accessed 26… Read more “Poetry Can Communicate Before It Is Understood”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Mature Poets Steal

    Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. Goodreads.com. (2019).… Read more “Mature Poets Steal”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Risk Going Too Far

    Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. Goodreads.com. (2019). T.S. Eliot Quotes (Author of The Waste Land… Read more “Risk Going Too Far”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    Be Over Your Head

    If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? Goodreads.com. (2019). T.S. Eliot Quotes (Author of The Waste Land and Other… Read more “Be Over Your Head”

    September 26, 2019 by Rolandoramos

    The Aim Of Every Writer Is To Arrest Motion

    The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a… Read more “The Aim Of Every Writer Is To Arrest Motion”

    September 25, 2019 by Rolandoramos

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