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“Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.” —Vera Pavlova, adding to our ongoing archive of advice on writing.
Complement with Ezra Pound’s don’ts for budding poets and how to read a poem.
(via explore-blog)
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“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.” -
I STILL LOVE NY, a clever and wonderful take on the iconic Milton Glaser logo celebrating hurricane recovery, with 100% of proceeds going towards Sandy relief.
(↬ Swiss Miss)
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Artist Ryan Sheffield captures Ray Bradbury’s poignant, timeless words. More Bradbury wisdom here and here. His most memorable quotes here.
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Trailer for Herman Miller’s wonderful Why Design series of interviews with designers.
(↬ Swiss Miss)
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Ira Glass teaches you how to make balloon animals while answering teenage girls’ questions about love.
Complement with Glass’s answer to the grown-up question of how to find success in creative work.
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Beautiful piece by artist Vincent Kohler depicts the different pieces of wood derived from a log, at once breathtaking and bittersweet. More on the poetics of trees here, more wood-based art here.
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“My theory is that every moment — even when you’re by yourself in the bathroom, you are trying to live up to certain status requirements as if someone were watching … It’s only when your life is in danger that you drop all that.” -
Designer Jonathan Adler on why you should keep other people’s opinions out of your creative process. Paul Graham admonished against the same thing and Woz famously advocated the creative value of working alone.
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“ Truman Capote wrote lying down, as did Marcel Proust, Mark Twain and Woody Allen.
Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Fernando Pessoa and George Sand all wrote standing up.
Roth also “walks half a mile for every page”. Roald Dahl wrote in a shed.
Philip Pullman used to write in a shed, but eventually gave it to an illustrator friend.
Umberto Eco has a converted church as his scriptorium. One floor has a computer, one has a typewriter, one in which he writes long-hand.
Haruki Murakami commutes into a city apartment in Tokyo where he writes.
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Gay Talese would pin pages of his writing to a wall and examine them from the other side of the room with binoculars.
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