Poetatwork - Poet At Work

WRITE!! WHAT!! YOU!! WANT!!

If you don't love your writing, no one else will!

The trick is to be more curious than you're scared.

Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

You are enough as you are.

You don't need to be healed. You don't need to have accomplished certain things. You don't need to have met your goals, or done something you see as groundbreaking.

You are enough, right now, as you are. I promise.

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

— Franz Kafka

lowkey guys, remember to write for yourself too. i abandoned my favorite wip of all time for two years because i thought other people wouldn’t like it. that sucked, and i decided to stop caring if other people will think it’s weird and write what i like. it’s made me a lot happier since i’ve accepted that

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

— Lalah Deliah