Will Nicholson
Will Nicholson
William Faust "Will" Nicholsonwas an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1955 to 1959...
swimming white space
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.
kids curves brain
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.
writing thinking three
Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.
war thinking order
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.
art order needs
You need the art in order to love the life.
thinking suspense-novels sometimes
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
ice spoons sauce
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
running reading ipods
People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).
reading writing firsts
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
slow-motion poetry-is prose
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
shoes firsts adults
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
book reading ipods
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
mistake thinking credit
But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.
worry rooms peculiar
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?