16 avr. 2009

Partager ce que nous sommes

Bloguer, c'est partager. C'est partager ce que nous sommes. C'est aussi partager ce qui nous inspire à être ou nous a inspiré à devenir ce que nous sommes.

Inspiré par Mario Asselin, lui-même inspiré par Jeff Utecht, qui lui, avait été inspiré par Renny Gleeson, qui lui...


Le plus grand défi, c'est d'être jour après jour personne d'autre que soi-même :

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy, but it isn't. A lot of people think or believe or know they feel -- but that's thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling -- not knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody-else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E.E. Cummings, cité par Dave Pollard