puddleriver
Edwin Owens
3/13/2005 3:50:51 PM
keep encouraged


To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~~ e.e. cummings

Edwin Owens
puddleriver
3/14/2005 1:22:38 AM
Re: keep encouraged

as for expressing

nobody but your self

in words

that means you're going to have to work

just a little bit harder than anyone who isn't a poet can possibly
imagine

why

because nothing is quite so easy as using words like everybody else

we all of us do this most of the time

but whenever we do it we're not poets

if after ten years of fighting and working and writing

you have written one line of one poem

you'll be very lucky indeed

so my advice to all young people who ask if they should be poets

do something easy

like blow up the world

unless your willing to fight and write until you die

does this sound dismal

it's the most wonderful life on earth

or so i feel


e e cummings




THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU XOXO Edwin