I have to comment on my own post because this poem is just such the best. The first two lines are my sentiments exactly as I work on my novel this week. It is a lonesome glee--yet sanctifies the mind.
Yes, amazing. "A lonesome glee." So true about writing. I think that's why it's hard for me to get much done. I'm a hopelessly social creature, and let's face it, you only get writing done in solitude. Yet, once you immerse yourself in it, there is joy in the process.
I've always wanted to write a novel about her youth. When I was 16 or 17 I began reading a several volume bio with that intent. But it would drain me dry, I know. Her mind was a deep and dazzling darkness (Vaughan). So intensely concentrated.
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I have to comment on my own post because this poem is just such the best. The first two lines are my sentiments exactly as I work on my novel this week. It is a lonesome glee--yet sanctifies the mind.
That Emily. Amazing.
Yes, amazing. "A lonesome glee." So true about writing. I think that's why it's hard for me to get much done. I'm a hopelessly social creature, and let's face it, you only get writing done in solitude. Yet, once you immerse yourself in it, there is joy in the process.
I love Dickinson's poems, they seem to flow and rhyme perfectly. I will be getting to read a lot of them because we are studying her in English now.
I've always wanted to write a novel about her youth. When I was 16 or 17 I began reading a several volume bio with that intent. But it would drain me dry, I know. Her mind was a deep and dazzling darkness (Vaughan). So intensely concentrated.
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