"A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best."

-- Tom Rachman

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“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordÂ—tensionÂ—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endÂ—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”
“This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but donâ€™t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.”

Source : "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.
“I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.”

Source : "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.
“Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.”
“Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.”
“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”
“I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.”
“People still tell me Iâ€™m fat, but when I look in the mirror, thatâ€™s not what I see.”

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