“Bad writing is almost always a love poem addressed by the self to the self.” – Toby Litt
Author Archives: Izzat Zailan
Life is a Playground of Inspiration
“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating desperate experience.” – T.S. Eliot
Reading List
October 2019
The Ultimate Goal in Creating Work
“The power of genius is to make us love a beauty we feel to be more real than ourselves, in those things which in the eyes of others are as particular and as perishable as ourselves.” -Marcel Proust
The Dangerous End of Literature
“The specific character of despair is precisely this : it is unaware of being despair.” Soren Kierkegaard
Turn Self-Absorption Into Empathy
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” -Abraham Lincoln
Finding Meaning in Our Suffering | Art as a Service
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Confronting The Effects of Creativity and Invention
“Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgment on oneself.” – Henrik Ibsen
9 Quotes That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
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Who Are You Becoming?
“Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are.” – Goethe
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