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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Inspiration... #85653 11/04/2002 7:06 PM Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague bonzaialsatian enthusiast bonzaialsatian enthusiast Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague I am looking for some quotes from books(in particular), poetry, people, films or songs as inspiration for a piece of creative writing - any suggestions? The weirder the better! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Inspiration... #85654 11/04/2002 7:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ... be careful what you ask for! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Inspiration... #85655 11/04/2002 7:32 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory "I had a normal childhood. I hated my father." --Joe Orton "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." --Joe Orton Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Inspiration... #85656 11/04/2002 8:07 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago I'm not sure it was specifically an inspiration, but there was a not-so-bad movie called "The Pompitous of Love" (crossthreading e) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter My beloved Rupert Brooke #85657 11/05/2002 3:05 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Bonzai, the second paragraph seems to fit your description, but I'll put the whole poem as it's so short. Hauntings In the grey tumult of these after years Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part; And less-than-echoes of remembered tears Hush all the loud confusion of the heart; And a shade, through the toss'd ranks of mirth and crying Hungers, and pains, and each dull passionate mood, -- Quite lost, and all but all forgot, undying, Comes back the ecstasy of your quietude. So a poor ghost, beside his misty streams, Is haunted by strange doubts, evasive dreams, Hints of a pre- Lethean life, of men, Stars, rocks, and flesh, things unintelligible, And light on waving grass, he knows not when, And feet that ran, but where, he cannot tell. PACIFIC, 1914 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Inspiration... #85658 11/05/2002 6:42 PM Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague bonzaialsatian enthusiast bonzaialsatian enthusiast Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague Brill! Thanks all! I'm sure I'll think of something with the help of these and my hyper-active imagination... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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