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JO ANN BROWN-SCOTT
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Commitment

Until one is committed
there is hesitancy; the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation)
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would otherwise never have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the declaration,
raising in one’s favor all manner
Of unforeseen incidents and meetings
And material assistance,
Which no man could have dreamed
Would have come his way.
FRAGILE

IF BLOOD WILL FLOW WHEN FLESH AND STEEL ARE ONE
DRYING IN THE COLORS OF THE EVENING SUN
TOMORROW'S RAIN WILL WASH THE STAINS AWAY
BUT SOMETHING IN OUR MINDS WILL ALWAYS STAY
PERHAPS THIS FINAL ACT WAS MEANT
TO CLINCH A LIFETIME'S ARGUMENT
THAT NOTHING COMES FROM VIOLENCE AND NOTHING EVER
COULD
FOR ALL THOSE BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR
LEST WE FORGET HOW FRAGILE WE ARE

ON AND ON THE RAIN WILL FALL
LIKE TEARS FROM A STAR, LIKE TEARS FROM A STAR
ON AND ON THE RAIN WILL SAY
HOW FRAGILE WE ARE, HOW FRAGILE WE ARE

LYRICS BY STING
FIRST BOOK
THE
INSPIRATIONAL
CLIP BOARD

All art is a kind of confession, more or less
oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are
forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the
anguish up. - James Baldwin

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and
paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher












THE AVERAGE PENCIL
IS SEVEN INCHES LONG,
WITH JUST A HALF INCH ERASER -
IN CASE YOU THOUGHT OPTIMISM WAS DEAD.
Robert Brault

THE PRINCIPAL MARK OF GENIUS IS
NOT PERFECTION BUT ORIGINALITY;
THE OPENING OF NEW FRONTIERS.
Arthur Koestler in
THE ACT OF CREATION

IT IS THE WOUNDED OYSTER
THAT MENDS ITS SHELL WITH A PEARL.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

WHERE WORDS FAIL, MUSIC SPEAKS.
Hans Christian Andersen

FOR A MAN TO BECOME A POET
HE MUST BE IN LOVE, OR MISERABLE.
Lord Byron

FOR EVERY PROBLEM
THERE IS ONE SOLUTION
WHICH IS SIMPLE,
NEAT... AND WRONG.
H. L. Mencken

ART EXTENDS EACH MAN'S
SHORT TIME ON EARTH,
BY CARRYING FROM MAN TO MAN
THE WHOLE COMPLEXITY OF
OTHER MEN'S LIFELONG EXPERIENCE,
WITH ALL ITS BURDENS,
COLORS AND FLAVOR.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

THERE'S NOTHING TO WRITING -
ALL YOU DO IS  SIT DOWN AT A TYPEWRITER
AND OPEN A VEIN.
Red Smith

WRITING IS THERAPY!
As Dr. Seuss says -
"Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind."
IT IS ART THAT MAKES LIFE.
AND I KNOW OF NO SUBSTITUTE  
WHATSOEVER FOR THE FORCE AND
BEAUTY OF ITS PROCESS.
"When you look back on a lifetime,and think
of what has been given to the world by your
presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably
you think of your art, whatever it may be, as
the gift you have made to the world in
acknowledgment of the gift you have been
given, which is the life itself...That work is not
an expression of the desire for praise or
recognition, or prizes, but the deepest
manifestation of your gratitude
for the gift of life."
- Stanley Kunitz