tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post526056016760151583..comments2024-03-01T03:58:21.808-05:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Internal exileMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51467483085957731042012-09-28T19:22:01.893-04:002012-09-28T19:22:01.893-04:00Well, what I really want to know by heart is more ...Well, what I really want to know by heart is more poems. Have some, but I wish I had lots.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-3845765161067842882012-09-28T19:21:02.277-04:002012-09-28T19:21:02.277-04:00Oh, remembered Beckett but the Michelangelo I had ...Oh, remembered Beckett but the Michelangelo I had to look up the wording--remembered but not by heart. I wish I had a better memory and knew more quotes by heart.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-7408490810534662012-09-28T18:27:23.683-04:002012-09-28T18:27:23.683-04:00Wow, Marly, you are quick with ever more superb qu...Wow, Marly, you are quick with ever more superb quotes! Do you remember them all or do you have a special book, site or file with them :-) Love the first one most.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-88957939947486831852012-09-28T18:17:35.028-04:002012-09-28T18:17:35.028-04:00Hi Marja-Leena--
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"The greater danger for ...Hi Marja-Leena--<br /><br />1.<br />"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." --Michelangelo<br /><br />2.<br />Yes, we are all Aengus from "The Song of Wandering Aengus."<br /><br />3.<br />"Fail better." -Beckett<br /><br />4.<br />What a strange thing, to Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-60458482514044946452012-09-28T17:55:21.639-04:002012-09-28T17:55:21.639-04:00This is fascinating, thought-provoking stuff. My i...This is fascinating, thought-provoking stuff. My immediate and maybe off-base response, coloured by being a visual artist rather than writer, is that we are always searching and striving for THE perfect poem, novel or visual art piece but never quite get there. It's all about that journey or hunt, it seems to me. I hope every piece of work we create adds up in a body of work that together marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-39917922411544153792012-09-28T15:54:53.694-04:002012-09-28T15:54:53.694-04:00It doesn't actually matter what we think about...It doesn't actually matter what we think about these things... Or how often we change our minds and use a different metaphor or even a different meaning.<br /><br />Only the archipelago matters, and whether it is worthy of a map.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11477057329339868872012-09-28T15:36:32.980-04:002012-09-28T15:36:32.980-04:00Beautiful post Marly. I thought it was our job to ...Beautiful post Marly. I thought it was our job to write ourselves home, and our hope that each fresh piece would build another little piece of that imagined place that is not a place.<br />For me, my childhood home was never a home, and I wrote about that in my poem "My Memory Palace," which is going to be posted with a response by a visual artist, Katie Helms, on Spark.org.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.com