Fixed Cross wrote:There is only one thing you need to know:
write with blood, or don't write at all.
Will all the passion in the world which one could muster help if one does not know the craft or have skills?
What is wrong with learning from those who do know, those who are like gods when it comes to writing and those who have had success with writing?
Would you turn a blind eye to Shakespeare, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Keats, Shelley ad continuum?
When Freddie wrote this...
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit...."
Did he mean there that the individual did not need skills nor did he need to learn his craft?
Was passion and spirit alone enough?
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.”
Immanuel Kant