Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Jesse Miksic
Poetry is definitely among the best ways to renew capacity for surprise. The few times I've worked at it, it's been like pulling teeth, but it works reliably.https://twitter.com/miksimum/status/1108590129101373440 …
Venkatesh Rao added,
Jesse Miksic @miksimum
Replying to @vgr
Not sure how this fits, but writing poetry has become sort of a surprise-generating enterprise for me. I’ve taught myself to start with a minimal seed and write intuitively from that. The result: if I read something I wrote 4-6 weeks ago, I often find it surreally unfamiliar
9:45 PM - 20 Mar 2019
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