William Liston

Posted 8 Years Ago

The rarest thing in the world is to live, William. Do keep that in mind.

Posted 8 Years Ago

Welcome back!

Posted 8 Years Ago

Hey, im thierteen.

Posted 8 Years Ago

regarding your status: that is quite a question! I love it.. I suppose it depends on the pens mood.

Posted 8 Years Ago

"Most writers- poets in especial- prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy- an ecstatic intuition- and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought- at the true purposes seized only at the last moment- at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view- at the fully-matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable- at the cautious selections and rejections- at the painful erasures and interpolations- in a word, at the wheels and pinions- the tackle for scene-shifting- the step-ladders, and demon-traps- the c**k's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, constitute the properties of the literary histrio."

-Edgar Allan Poe

Posted 8 Years Ago

"Imagery, in combination with tone, diction, etc..., helps to convey the atmosphere of a poem, and therefore, all imagery in a poem must enhance or develop the mood. Imagery must not be used just for the mere purpose of "showing off" eloquence (or lack thereof), for if it is, it turns the poem into a convoluted mess of words rather that the beautiful "charm" it's meant to be."

-William Liston

Posted 8 Years Ago

So true, Mr. Liston !

Posted 8 Years Ago

You might be right, Wayland.

Posted 8 Years Ago

Somehow, I think all of that creativity and talent inside you, would have gotten out eventually even without two great poets like Poe and Dunbar. =)

Posted 8 Years Ago

"Edgar Allan Poe may have inspired me to start writing poetry, but if it wasn't for Paul Laurence Dunbar, I would've quit writing long ago."

-William Liston