Gary:
> I collect quotes about POETRY AND ART (emphasis added). This one from Steve
> kowit's book In the Palm of Your Hand, The Poet's Portable Workshop,
> currently ranks as the best yet.
> "How easy it is to wounded into silence."
> Steve is discussing the reasons folks to not write, mostly BECAUSE OF WHAT IS
> SAID TO THEM (emphasis added) well-meaning and otherwise.
Marcus:
> Harumph. WRITERS (emphasis added) who can be wounded into silence probably
> ought to be silent. The trick is to be wounded into art.
Gary:
> ... I give you the long list of reasons people have kept silent
> Physical abuse
> Verbal abuse
> Teachers who could not teach
> parents/husbands/friends who discouraged
> in an environment where reading is looked upon as odd or pansy or worse
> no time, their priority to money and work until the blinders off
> "I was a bad English student.'
> simpley the fear of failing
> low esteem ...
> I will not assume you think someone who has been abused deserved it, but
> I find your attitude disturbing and even a bit sickening.
It's a long damned way from "Writers who can be wounded into silence probably
ought to be silent. The trick is to be wounded into art." to "Someone who has
been abused deserved it." You were talking about what can be SAID to a writer
to "wound" them into silence. A writer, a person who is engaged in language,
its uses and abuses, who can be "wounded into silence" probably ought not be
trying to be a writer; ought to find another field, one in which they can't
be "wounded" into giving it up.
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