When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly – with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow. In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. It exists to serve you. Don’t be bullied into serving it.
Musings on the Artist's Life
I write to question, clarify and celebrate – explore the categories in the sidebar.
Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Julia Cameron
Worried about playing the fool, we forget how to simply play.
Ursula K. Le Guin
No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole.
Stella Reinwald
Words are great, but seeing is more primal than language and smelling more primal still.
Bertrand Russell
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
Josh Billings
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
Josephine Hart
I always recognize the forces that will shape my life. I let them do their work. Sometimes they tear through my life like a hurricane. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up. I steady myself, in the earthquake. I lie down, and let the hurricane pass over me. I never fight. Afterward I look Josephine HartRead More
Federico García Lorca
What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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