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“…enriched, not eroded…”

November 8, 2009

in Adaptation,Learning,Process,Words

From My Muse, My Self by Hazel Dooney:

“I am still both artist and muse. Because of my feminist upbringing, I used to interpret the role of muse with scepticism. It was, I used to think, related to looks, not intellect, and so inevitably ephemeral and ultimately destroyed by time.

Now I’m not so sure. In the muse that is myself, I am only just beginning to penetrate layers of 20-something years of tightly woven emotional, psychological and intellectual fabric that are enriched, not eroded, by the slow decay of the physical self.”

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Of Wealth and Ecstasy

March 27, 2009

in Poetry,Thinking,Words

It’s no surprise that in five lines, Miss Dickinson succinctly says what I spent more than a thousand words trying to convey:

#1640

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men –
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty –

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