Random Inspiration

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Quotations scribbled on small pieces of paper are rising up in my office as I continue my quest for order out of the chaos.  Some quotes are not only incomplete but also incomprehensible: “My mother is saving the wings of the termites to – “ (Is this is a note for something I was writing? Did I overhear it ?)

The majority of the quotes are more inspiring:

                                          

“There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”  Joy Harjo

“Failure is an event, never a person.”  William D. Brown

“Lower your standards and keep writing.”  Willliam Stafford

“There’s nothing more interesting than a wall behind which something is happening.”  Victor Hugo

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.  In life may you proceed with balance and health.”   Patti Smith

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And this quote that I copied down at a museum the year I started taking writing classes, and it still keeps rising up out of piles of papers:

“Behold, nothing surpasses books. Would that I might make you love them more than your mother.  Would that I might make their beauty enter before your face.  For it is greater than any office. You are to set your heart on books.” 

Anon. 2,150 BC

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If by any chance you’re reading this Saturday evening and live in Minneapolis/St.Paul, I’ll be on the Jill Spiegel Show tonight at 9:20 pm, FM 107.1

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