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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!

Re: Inspiration... #85654 11/04/2002 7:11 PM
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Re: Inspiration... #85655 11/04/2002 7:32 PM
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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)

My beloved Rupert Brooke

#85657 11/05/2002 3:05 AM

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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

Re: Inspiration... #85658 11/05/2002 6:42 PM
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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...

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