written for Richard Bach and Robert Frost
A cursor blinks in the white of my screen.
darkness pools around stars
words I never said
words I never sent
FYI: Below are two of my favourite remarks on writing:
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
-- Richard Bach
And
Every time a poem is written, every time a short story is written, it is written not by cunning, but by belief. The beauty, the something, the little charm of the thing to be, is more felt than known.
-- Robert Frost
Added: I just found this "reading, writing and human connection" remark:
These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.
George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, 2021.
