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When I'm truly absorbed in what I'm writing, the inspiration doesn't stop for me each time I close
my laptop and call it quits for the day. On the contrary, inspiration is a very panoramic thing.
Music and lyrics bring out new emotions and unexpected ideas for what will happen when I sit down
again to write; poetry takes on new and broader meaning; the energy of those singers, those lyricists,
those poets become a mobile spinning through the atmosphere. Below are the titles and passages of works that I find inspiring, and that I hope might inspire others. APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. -T.S. Eliot, taken from The Waste Land "must try to write simply, fully, freely, from my heart. Quietly, caring nothing for success or failure, but just going on?" -Katherine Mansfield "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -T.E. Lawrence When the rain falls and enters The earth, when a pearl drops into The depth of the sea, you can Dive in the sea and find the Pearl, you can dig in the earth And find the water. But no one Has ever come back from the Underground Springs. Once gone, life Is over for good. My chest Tightens against me. I have No one to turn to. Nothing, Not even a shadow in a mirror. -Mei Yao Ch'en "In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing." -David Foster |