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An Original Guide to Creative Writing

 

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Is the mind divided - what 'parts' should I exercise more? Am I unaware of factors that influence my thinking? How is intellect growing? I need spontaneity more than reasoning? What kind and how hard is the task of thinking? Only the Genius is creative? Should I specialize, or rather strive after wholeness? Whose judgement of my work should I care about?

   Emerson, The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art

What are especially for me the limits between known and unknown? Who understands me? How can I know that I will always be in fashion?

  Emerson, Reading and writing as self-knowledge

What is the power of poetry and the nature of language? How would expression be 'organic'? How can nature become a writer's teacher? Why artists love wine or tobacco, etc? Sublime vision comes to whom?

  Emerson, Nature gives second birth to itself in poetry (Margin: DeQuincey, Poems as natural phenomena)

 

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