Monthly Archives: April 2011

I walk out; I see something, some event that would otherwise have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell. – Annie Dillard    … Continue reading →

For as the powers of our soul are communicated to the members of the body by the spirit, so also the soul of the world is diffused through all things by the quintessence: for there is nothing found in the … Continue reading →

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences – like rags and shreds of your very life. – Katherine Mansfield  Last year, … Continue reading →

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. – Carl Jung  We discussed the concept of the persona in our April 6 prompt – remember that the persona is a mask that we … Continue reading →

An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic epiphany. –Nick Cave  Revelation is a kind of epiphany, a sudden … Continue reading →

Images are the heart of poetry. And this is not tricks. Images come from the unconscious. Imagination and the unconscious are one and the same. You’re not a poet without imagery. – Anne Sexton  Poetry and personal mythology encourage us … Continue reading →

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. –  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Renewal is one of the oldest story archetypes we have. It has many shades of meaning: to make something as if new again, to revive, … Continue reading →

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. – William Faulkner  According to the ancient Greeks, memory is the mother of all the written, oral and performing arts, whether profane or sacred. From memory, … Continue reading →

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. – John Muir  The moral and cosmological status of animals in the West is largely derived from … Continue reading →