The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
Tag: power
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
Quotable 387
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
– William Plomer
haiku 420
ice storm –
power outage map
lights up
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
haiku 159
power outage –
cat inspects
oil lamp
Quotable 30
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
– Samuel Johnson