Hey everybody, wanted to post on this for awhile now.
Think back to when you heard somebody say a quote, any quote.
Think about how you it made you feel and how you interpreted it.
Think back to any connections you made between your life and the quote.
I've always been inspired by a great quote, it makes me feel like I can
do anything, or it really stands in my mind making me think.
Try taking one of these quotes and letting the muse run with it... see
where you go!
Quotes don't need to be from whatever great person... you don't even need to
know who said them... You could even use your moms quotes.
"You're a wizard Harry!"
I'm a what? What am I?
Large brown man pushing in my door
You fool, standing like i'm the last
Stronghold to wizardkind.
Why don't I have a choice?
I'm who I want to be.
The boat you row is one of lies!
What is this, a school!
Oh, now i'm supposed to love magic? huh? why?
Because i'm forced!
Who is this goof with the red hair, and hand-me-down robe?
I'm beginning to like this kind of stuff
Yeah i'm fitting in with people here
Much better than the real world
But this world is real to me
No matter how unreal it is
To those non-wizards.
That was kind of forced, apologies, but the point is to let something strong take hold of you, and write your thoughts
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Yes, quotations are another way to work with what you're reading, too. In fact, I sometimes will open a book of poetry at random, let my eyes alight on a line, and then open to my Muse. At any rate, quotations are a great way to get going.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you here. I to beleive that a great quote can be used to lead you to create and finish a great poem. Quotes can be seen in many ways depending on the person, and its this that can make a poem stand out. It allows for a whole new vision through the eyes of other person.
ReplyDeleteI use a quote to start each one of my days, mine are normally those of importance of the world but none the less they really influence every part of my day. Writing from a quote or like our professor said even a line of a poem can spark a whole bunch of ideas that you never imagined you thought about (the beauty of the muse I suppose). After reading this post I really thought about it, and made up something of my own.
ReplyDeleteMy quote of the day to day was
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
~Pope John XXIII~
The phone screams,
The door knocker drones,
Opportunity is not there. Fear and frustrations,
Stand there peering -- never blinking always
Glaring. Nowhere to hide, run, escape
They are me and I am nothing but them.
Every day does past and fear grows, what’s next, who
Will I fail? A constant thought a tedious frustration
I would amount to nothing without my fears pushing
Me to prove them wrong I would be nothing without my fears.
Not the happiest or best attempt but it is what flowed. I left a great deal of the quote out but maybe next time I read the same quote I will find something else inspiring about this quote.