My Life Is Complete, Too.
“Was just at a wedding yesterday for a former student who’d taken Milton. She had PL 4.639-56 printed on the cover of their bulletin. My life is now complete.”
-Dan Ritchie, in an email to his Milton students.
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With Wandring Steps and Slow
~ Wednesday, May 23 ~
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~ Friday, May 18 ~
Japanese Friend
In response to me wishing her a happy birthday:
I’m glad to hearing your happy birthday ♪
I think your heart is beautiful !(*´▽｀*)♡♥
I wish you can be yourself , everyday and
everynight ★
See you again ♪(*^^*)♡♥+*ﾟ
There is something beautiful about this that I love.
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~ Thursday, May 17 ~
~ Wednesday, May 16 ~
“ It’s the fault of the Romantics, who eliminated humor from poetry. Shakespeare’s hilarious, Chaucer’s hilarious. The Romantics killed off humor, and they also eliminated sex, things which were replaced by landscape. I thought that was a pretty bad trade-off, so I’m trying to write about humor and landscape, and occasionally sex.
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Billy Collins
— Billy Collins, on why there is little humor in poetry.
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“ As I’m writing, I’m always reader conscious. I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I’m talking to, and I want to make sure I don’t talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.
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Billy Collins
— Billy Collins
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“ I have no work habits whatsoever. I don’t write every day, so often it would be zero hours per day. I kind of hold onto a romantic view. People say in order to be a writer you have to write all the time. The poem will come along when it arrives. I try to be on the lookout for creative opportunities, something that might trigger a poem, but I don’t sit down in the morning and try to commit an act of literature before lunch.
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Billy Collins
— Billy Collins
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~ Tuesday, May 15 ~
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I went to a wonderful wedding today.
It was such a beautiful and wonderfully done wedding. And intimate and celebratory. I danced the night away with close friends and new...
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I’m feeling quite off today. This week I started weaning off a medication I’ve been on for almost 3 years for depression/anxiety. And I didn’t feel any side effects until today. It could just be...
