Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A warm account

...of the writing life can be almost as good as chocolate. My favourite paragraph begins with this: "Not knowing what you're writing about is the great thrill of poetry. That and finding out."

3 comments:

Tracy Hamon said...

Thanks B, a tasty post.

Anonymous said...

I liked this part: Poetry is collaboration. Assemble a few sympathetic components on your desk and feel your way forward.

Brenda Schmidt said...

Ya, I like that part too, b-). I never thought of any components as being sympathetic, but hey, why not?