Two bookish snippets that are gnawing at me.
"This is one moment
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy."
-T.S. Eliot
Which leads seamlessly into this one:
"So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle-classes, or that it shouldn't be read at school because it's irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and it splace in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place."
-Jeneatte Winterson, 'Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?'
I love these words and what they do to me. They make my heart beat a little bit faster. They fill me with conviction and remind me of ideals. Ah, man.
"This is one moment
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy."
-T.S. Eliot
Which leads seamlessly into this one:
"So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle-classes, or that it shouldn't be read at school because it's irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and it splace in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place."
-Jeneatte Winterson, 'Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?'
I love these words and what they do to me. They make my heart beat a little bit faster. They fill me with conviction and remind me of ideals. Ah, man.
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