But while human nature resists change, spiritual unfoldment compels change, breaking up the old patterns continuously.
--Joel Goldsmith


If we were willing to surrender each day what we had yesterday we would find something better tomorrow, but our very attempts to hold on to what we have takes it away from us by force.
--Joel Goldsmith


Most poets, I think, are drawn to the unknown, and writing, for them, is a way of making the unknown visible.
--Mark Strand


...it is generally acknowledged that poetry invokes aspects of language other than that of communication...
--Mark Strand


All poetic language is the language of exploration.
--Ezra Pound


In order to catch these... I have to stay "turned on" all the time, to keep my receptivity to what is around me totally open. Preconception is fatal...
--Anne Truitt


Writers are not called upon so much to be smart, as to be alert.
--Kim Stafford


I don't want to write good poems, I want to write inevitable poems—to write the things I will write, given who I am.
--William Stafford


I think you create a good poem by revising your life...by living the kind of life that enables good poems to come about. --William Stafford

What is this?

This is a journal of five months of daily poetry writing practice.

This is about having a voice, welcoming flow, being playful, and feeling alive.

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