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There's just no better way to engage with the language and the craft than stamping the words on your brain. Also works for particularly brilliant prose, of course
Jan 24, 2024
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Lately, I've been spending my time on the train repeating poems over and over until I know them rather well. Then I come home, and I repeat them over and over to my partner until I know it by heart and they know it rather well. Now, we're both walking around playing a game called poetry juke-box. There's seldom a winner and only a sliver of pride on the line each time we play.
3d ago
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its nice to have some words in your metaphorical back pocket and the ladies love it when you recite them a poem from memory
May 21, 2024
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it sounds stupid and pretentious but every time I see one of those old school British actors recite some old Wordsworth poem i think damn you really did it!!! Or George Steiner has those beautiful stories about the value of Talmudic memory during the holocaust, or Pasternak standing up to Stalin during the Soviet Writer's Conference in the 30s surely to be arrested and making everyone recite Shakespeare's "I summon up remembrance of things past.." its so powerful!!! Recitation and memory has such strength to it, and I want to keep it strong!
I'm trying to learn a Blake poem rn and I feel such a special connection to every line when I learn them... who cares if im pretentious!!!!!!
Feb 2, 2024
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You can see action movies at home and you're fine. But to truly appreciate a movie with any nuance or subtlety, you must see it in a darkened, under-attended theater so you can hold your thoughts and keep your phone in your pocket and surrender yourself to the vision
Jan 24, 2024
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Donβt just come at me with problems
Feb 15, 2024
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Just go on Spotify or whatever and hit play on some Charlie Parker or Ornette Coleman or Miles Davis. Let it spin out recommendations from there. It will all be over your head, and that's just fine. The more you pay attention, the more you'll be rewarded, but also, just hit play and get on with your day
Jan 24, 2024