Category Archives: Language

Walk inside the poem’s room

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe … Continue reading →

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Learning through writing

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Learn as much by writing as by reading. –John Dalberg-Acton, The Study Of History (1895) Response: Writing ideas takes on a life of its own. Sometimes an idea in our minds goes easily onto paper, but other times the words … Continue reading →

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heavy on the shoulders

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Shoulds weigh heavy on the shoulders -Branden Phillips, 2012 Response: A few years ago, someone suggested to me to try removing “should” from my regular vocabulary. The word “should” along with “ought” is often implicit with moral implications – “I … Continue reading →

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Words

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

” Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne,The American Notebooks 1848 Response: … Continue reading →

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Skin of living thought

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., … Continue reading →

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