1000 Words

All the words I never said and a few that I did.

[requiem-on-water]

"I learned to listen for what wasn't being said, because it was usually more important than what was."

—Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm

[metamorphesque]

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

[metamorphesque]

The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King, J.R.R Tolkien

[havingapoemwithyou]

from let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

[kafk-a]

Marie Howe, ‘You Think This Happened Only Once and Long Ago,’ from The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

[thehopefulquotes]

“The words you speak become the house you live in.”

— Hafiz

[metamorphesque]

Leonard Cohen, "Summer-Haiku"

[writingdotcoffee]

“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”

— C. S. Lewis

[metamorphesque]

Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside.

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[writingdotcoffee]

“The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.”

— C. S. Lewis

[metamorphesque]

― James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

[metamorphesque]

— Mary Oliver, The Pond

[da-da-sk]

“We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

[writingdotcoffee]

“Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”

— Stephen King

[indecisivegloom]

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from “Late Poems”, Dearly

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: These are the late poems. / Most poems are late / of course: too late, / like a letter sent by a sailor / that arrives after he’s drowned. ] 

[writingdotcoffee]

“You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

— Neil Gaiman