II. the damsel
''who would
i have
been without
the inspiration
behind my
demons?
-probably not a poet.''
From her How to Suppress Women's Writing
"In 1837 Charlotte Bronte wrote the then poet laureate, Robert Southey, asking his opinion of her poetry. Southey answered
“that it showed talent” but “advised her to give up thoughts of
becoming a poet”: “Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life and ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as . . . recreation.”"
My review; Society have long been used to suppress women writing and setting prohibitions is one the safest way to do it. Russ, with her book, is making the readers aware of the limitations. As you can understand from the quotation above, discouragement is a form of prohibition.
Bedeninizi Kaybetme, Benliğinizi Kaybetme
Kalbinizde çözümlenmemiş olan şeylere karşı sabırlı olun ve sorunları sevmeye çalışın. Şimdi sorunları yaşayın. Belki de aşamalı olarak, farkına bile varmadan yanıtlara birlikte yaşayacaksınız.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a young poet
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A poet is a dethroned king sitting among the ashes of his palace trying to fashion an image out of the ashes.
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Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
Başkaları sana bağırmışçasına
kendi sesinden başın ağrıyor,
yoruluyorsun yaptığın hareketlerden.
Gerçi kendi başınasın burada
ama kendin olamıyorsun olamıyorsun başkası da.
This or that, suicide is inevitable for a poet
ve imkanı yok aydınlatmanın
her ölüm cinayet.
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