It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.

- James Joyce

…but it has never been easier.

- Steven Johnson

Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace on kottke.org

Being the Result of One Man’s Fed-upped-ness With ‘How to Write’ Books Not Actually Showing You How to Write.

…
You must seek
the ashy nest itself
if you hope to find
charred feathers, smouldering flightbones,
and a twist of singing flame
rekindling.

Denise Levertov from Breathing the Water

From Good Magazine

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me - a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day’s blow
rang out, metallic - or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Denise Levertov from Breathing the Water

O for mortals, what
Power there is in songs,
What greatest happiness
That can make bearable this
Short narrow channel of life!

Sophocles, “On Song [Fragment 568]“