Apr 30, 2009
Write then, now that you are young, nonsense by the ream. Be silly, be sentimental, imitate Shelley, imitate Samuel Smiles; give the rein to every impulse; commit every fault of style, grammar, taste, and syntax; pour out; tumble over; loose anger, love, satire, in whatever words you can catch, coerce, or create, in whatever metre, prose, poetry, or gibberish that comes to hand. Thus will you learn to write.
Virginia Woolf, Letter to a Young Poet. (via danielsh)
The same sentiment has been many times, among them: “remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition; don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better; composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better.”
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