E. E. Cummings was, I have learned, a reactionary asshole, and he had his own motivations for saying this, but nevertheless I agree with the select following words as writing advice: "nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets."
E. E. Cummings was, I have learned, a reactionary asshole, and he had his own motivations for saying this, but nevertheless I agree with the select following words as writing advice: "nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets."
This is such a good piece DAMN
Probably going to print the last paragraph and stick it on my desk.
Would you like to learn how to catch a fish, Sarah?
I confess I read the Paris Review piece after reading this.
So good!
Read Turgenev.