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Why so many legends poets and writers said that its necessary to fall in love before going to be a great poet or writer? is love inspiration is necessary to put attractive words in your poem? please show your opinion. i have never fallen in love but sometime i watch mountains, rivers and wrote some lines about them! is that my love to nature?

Yes, it's necessary to love, to hate, to envy, to be grateful; it's necessary to be alive and feel all these things. It's necessary to seek, to dig, to experience, to become aware. Bukowski said you're not a writer if you're sitting around waiting for the right circumstances to write. A writer writes. Maybe to really be a writer one must experience death?

 
Hi SarahSConnell,

i share this quote:

“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”   ―Igor Stravinsky




Michael (MV)

SarahSConnell wrote:Why so many legends poets and writers said that its necessary to fall in love before going to be a great poet or writer? is love inspiration is necessary to put attractive words in your poem? please show your opinion. i have never fallen in love but sometime i watch mountains, rivers and wrote some lines about them! is that my love to nature?

 
 
 
 
 
 

Thanks Michael, I have a couple of quotes I like that have sustained me:

THAT I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.

--Emily Dickinson


What a power is love! It is the most wonderful, the greatest of all living powers.
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love
brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love.
When the heart of man is aglow with the flame of love, he is ready to sacrifice all—
even his life. In the Gospel it is said God is love.

--'Abdu'l-Bahá

oh and this:

"Every word of thy poetry is indeed like unto a mirror in which the evidences of the devotion and love thou cherishest for God and His chosen ones are reflected...Its perusal hath truly proved highly impressive, for it was indicative of both the light of reunion and the fire of separation."

--Baha'u'llah

 
Hi Billy,

on the same sustaining wave-length as these quotes, is the broem I currently posted:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6129


I invite you to read

& hope that you will comment.

With the upcoming IBPC, might it be one to represent the Writer's Block?


Thanks,

Michael (MV)


"Love has given the old man, Rodin, new wings"      -- from the bio-film, Camille Claudel

"Love lift us up where we belong"     -- Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes, Jennifer Warnes