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”
Month: September 2019
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”
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”
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…”
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”
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”
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].
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”
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?”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Rolando Andrés Ramos 
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