A Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.
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Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times,
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I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.
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I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.
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Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
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