February 2012
7 posts
“Don’t bend… don’t water it down… don’t try to make it logical… don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via spycnsweet)
“You must write every single day of your life.You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via letmeedream)
“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
January 2012
4 posts
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
Girl: Are you on Team Edward or Team Jacob?
Me: TEAM HELLSING
December 2011
3 posts
chapped lips and city streets: realm080: i carry... →
realm080:
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and…
September 2011
1 post
1 tag
“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what...”
– John Lennon. (via mindgamesss)
August 2011
6 posts
2 tags
an old conversation: Tips & Tricks for Writing... →
anoldconversation:
Whether you’re a seasoned poet or a beginner just dabbling, we all go through rough patches where we can’t just seem to get past three words. Like everything else, writing is hard work, and only writing more will perfect the craft. Here are a few tips and tricks I find helpful during a dry spell:
July 2011
7 posts
Reblog if you love to write.
Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via iheartacting)
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
– Walt Whitman (via 24ribs)
June 2011
1 post
“Good writers have two things in common: they would rather be understood than...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via isoldmysoultorocknroll)
May 2011
11 posts
Poems by Emily Dickinson (299 of 447)
dailylitemilydickinson:
XVII. Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God’s residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me...”
– Walt Whitman (via fatthewwanski)
"For the sake of one child ..."
“… I would have founded the Society [of the Sacred Heart].”
— St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart
As a child of the Sacred Heart, this really speaks to me. Especially today — the day I have officially kicked off Blossoming Ink ‘11! I visited Yeager Elementary, where my sister is a fifth grade student and where I attended...
“the woods are lovely, dark and deep
but i have promises to keep
and miles to...”
– Robert Frost (via jacobbadillo)
Say Anything: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening →
fallingintandem:
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He…
“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
...”
– Ezra Pound, “Notes for Canto CXX” (via proustitute)
goodpoetry:
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.
William Carlos Williams
tamburina:
Lovely one, your eyes are too big for your face, your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, in your eyes.
Pablo Neruda
April 2011
2 posts
Currently composing emails to the following...
The headmistress of my school, though I should probably copy the head of the lower school
The language arts teachers that Isabel (my little sister, who’s in 5th grade) had this year and last year
My second and third grade language arts teachers
My carpool buddy’s mom, who’s an elementary school teacher
My aunt, who is an elementary school teacher
If you know a Houston-area...
“You sing, and your voice peels the husk
of the day’s grain, your song with the...”
– Pablo Neruda (via tueurs)
January 2011
1 post
3 tags
Labyrinth
I look back
At crisp mornings
And dewy nights
I believed in Santa Claus and friendship
Concoctions of humanity
To ease the pain for a little while
And I wonder why I was made this way
I am healthy and sound, yes
But ever alone, trapped in the confines of flesh and hair and bone
Lost in a labyrinth of the human mind, of wickedness and...
December 2010
1 post
So busy.
Hey y’all!
I’ve been so busy with college apps that I haven’t had the time to even think about poetic form and children and schools and … I’m sorry I haven’t updated in such a while.
This program is still alive and kicking, though! The very second I’m done with finals and college apps (the Furies that follow me forever, basically), I’m going to put...
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
My next steps ...
… are to create a Blossoming Ink brochure to email to principals and get connected with my local elementary schools. I intend to contact the following schools:
Duchesne Academy (should be pretty easy to contact, haha)
Yeager Elementary School
Lakewood Elementary School (again next spring)
Herod Elementary School
Comments? Questions? Suggestions?
The Podcast is finally here! →
Here’s my interview, if you missed it last Wednesday! :)
Tune in right here. 6 PM CST, Wednesday August... →
I'm going to be on the radio this Wednesday. →
Click here to see dates; I’ll be on the air on August 11th, sharing my poetry with the state of Texas: http://writingontheair.com/?page_id=107
I’m so excited, but nervous at the same time! If you miss it, you can always click Previous Shows and listen to the interview there. Here’s the link: http://writingontheair.com/?page_id=29
July 2010
3 posts
“I love you because I know no other way than this.”
– Pablo Neruda