Une\Amitie Francaise Avec: Correspondance entre Charles Peguy et Romain Rolland
Words of a Writer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." ~ Lord Byron"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~ Charles Peguy"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams." ~ Danzae Pace"Easy reading is damn hard writing." ~ Nathaniel...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
“France lay very much in our path, our path to almost everything that could beckon us forth from our base – and there were very few things in the world or places on the globe that didn’t beckon us; according to which she helped us along on our expansive course a good deal more, doubtless, than either she or we always knew.” So wrote Henry James in 1915, less than a year before...
Mysterious People (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 The role of a writer is not to say what...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
... The Mystery of the Passion of Charles Peguy . For Péguy, both fidelity and hope are not static habits or concepts, but dynamic, living forces. It was an insight he had learned and developed from an early friend, Henri Bergson. Mere abstract doctrines of fidelity or hope may themselves become obstacles to the spirit. By contrast, real hope is the forward thrust of life; someone who is in...
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