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Jan. 19th, 2005 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseQuote for the day, from Ursula K. Leguin:
"Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. "
There are no words for how much I love this woman.
I need to start writing again. Fic, original, poetry, anything. I think that sometimes it's easier to close that off, to just sleep. Go to class, read some fic, turn off your brain. I's easier, but it isn't better. I feel like I'm only half-alive when I'm living like that. So I'm going to start writing again. I've got Trio!fic, Pansy!fic, and hobbit!fic all simmering away, and I think I found a new original story to write. I think that I actually might be able to like this one, if I can ever get anything done on it.
I feel oddly guilty about not posting any decent content. I mean, who'm I kidding? No one's really interested in my ramblies. No, that's not a plea to tell me how much you love me. It's a reminder to myself of just how silly I sound when I whine like that so that maybe I won't.
"Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. "
There are no words for how much I love this woman.
I need to start writing again. Fic, original, poetry, anything. I think that sometimes it's easier to close that off, to just sleep. Go to class, read some fic, turn off your brain. I's easier, but it isn't better. I feel like I'm only half-alive when I'm living like that. So I'm going to start writing again. I've got Trio!fic, Pansy!fic, and hobbit!fic all simmering away, and I think I found a new original story to write. I think that I actually might be able to like this one, if I can ever get anything done on it.
I feel oddly guilty about not posting any decent content. I mean, who'm I kidding? No one's really interested in my ramblies. No, that's not a plea to tell me how much you love me. It's a reminder to myself of just how silly I sound when I whine like that so that maybe I won't.