How Dare he...

[michaelboy]

The 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

Comments

[serafaery]

This was a revelation of my first college writing class (taught by one of those enchanting scruffy-haired 30-something cigarette smoking too-smart-for-his-own-good creative writing professors), that taking away as many words as possible while still conveying the meaning makes everything better. :)

[mallorys_camera]

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