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michaelboyThe will-o’-the-wisp
(willfully missed)
is wistfully wishing
on bits of your bliss
Source: Flammarion, L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888, p.749)
I enjoy poetry because it often uses the fewest number of words in rendering an expression. I'm not at all certain how others approach writing, but for me, I prefer to initially write way more words than I ultimately use. It is usually over half of what I've written that ends up being taken away in the process -- tossing many of words/parts.
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"Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. "
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes, 1939
(willfully missed)
is wistfully wishing
on bits of your bliss
Source: Flammarion, L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888, p.749)
I enjoy poetry because it often uses the fewest number of words in rendering an expression. I'm not at all certain how others approach writing, but for me, I prefer to initially write way more words than I ultimately use. It is usually over half of what I've written that ends up being taken away in the process -- tossing many of words/parts.
* * *
"Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. "
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes, 1939
