Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Phrases, May

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• When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Needs, Opaque

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• Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Meditation Practice, I Have Learned

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• At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Political, Everyday

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• I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

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• Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Writing, Clouds

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• There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  New York, Writing, Cities

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• I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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