David Jones's Blog, page 1175
August 20, 2013
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Hi, boring question about grammar: I've been reading your published poems (considering buying your collection, they're very good) and I've noticed you always capitalise at the start of new lines. Is this a stylistic choice and do you write/consider poems w
Hi! Thank you :) That means a lot - I put a lot of work and (I know it sounds really corny..) love into those poems so I am glad you are enjoying them :) This is a very good point - I do capitalise the start of the line a lot. I think this is partly a hangover from the poetry I generally read - usually more classical poets like Shakespeare, Marvel, Milton etc (my university course involved all those writers and a lot more Renaissance ones as well) so I think I sort of got into the habit of wr...
"The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
- Sylvia Plath,The Bell Jar.
- Sylvia Plath,The Bell Jar.
August 19, 2013
August 18, 2013
"I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway."
“I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via totallybutts)
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via totallybutts)
