Thursday, September 25, 2025

Reading versus Writing Poetry

"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"

-Emily Dickinson 

Creating a Myth

It is one thing to experience mythology, it is another to create it. Now that I read that last sentence, it sounds incredibly self-importa...