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I wonder.That is how most of my days start, how most of my thoughts start. That statement is how the world started. Wonderment. Or, the want to know what isn't known. To attain more knowledge. Know, I've always considered myself somewhat of a 'learned' person. Or at least on my way to becoming such. I love learning. I love to find out more. I'm rather selfish in that aspect, because if there is anything new to learn, then by God, I want to know what it is.
But, I wonder, (There's that statement again) what do other people think. Everything done in our lifetime now is up for interpretation. Everything. Art. Literature. Music. Facts even can be thought on in different lights. Every time I pull up my little “Documents” icon on my laptop, or pull out a sheet of paper during my math class and start writing the ramblings to later post onto DA, I start to think what others will think about the thoughts I'm thinking. Or will people just label me mad?
Is writing down your every waking thought an idea of pure lunacy? Will anyone ever benefit from my writings? Now, my readers are probably laughing by now. I keep referring to myself as a writer. When, I'm sure, most of them would think of me more so as a wannabe poet. Well, as I do write poetry, I can't exactly argue with that, but I was a writer first. Books, novels, short stories. It just seems that I have a problem with keeping my thoughts in the same direction when it comes to a story for more than a day.
Anywho, besides that. How many writings can be considered influential? A lot. The Bible is probably the most. On the hearts of young lovers, I'm sure Shakespeare had a certain role there. On politicians, “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli could have been in there to reads when they were young. What about the horrid grammar of a one Mr. e. e. Cummings? Isn't he considered one of the better poets of the time? Or the greatly depressed, (and one of my favorites) Mr. Poe? Every one of these men had great minds. And every one of them affected a handful of people if not more. It makes me think, did they wonder who would be reading their works a hundred years later? Four hundred?
I'd say yes.
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mhm. quotes are handy^^
anyway. you consider yourself a writer? hm. you certainly seem inspired by shakespeare: do me a favour and change that "there" near the end to a "their" as it belongs, will you, thank you 
hm.
I wanted to be a writer because it gives people a fantasy world into which they can slip if they are going through a hard time in their life. it certainly helped me.
I started writing because of a broken heart. and it helped me to get around my depressions, and because I thought that I would, in times to come, want to look back on this pain, and I could share my pain with my future self. it helped me.
I didn't stop writing because people told me they liked it. a few months after I had come out of my depression I met a girl who was going through a depressed phase as well. I gave her one of my texts to read, and she told me it was written as if from her heart. It helped her come out of her depression. she wasn't the only one. and so writing helped others.
If people in three hundred years pick up a bundle of yellow papers off the floor in a shack in the middle of a wood, hidden for decades under a mouldering old armchair, and start to read a text that I wrote, and I can get a tear to roll down there cheeks from reading my long dead memories. Then I am alive again.
don't stop wondering. it is the perfect state to be.
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^^ what do you mean "good"? to what?
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That you wish for people to find your writings. That you want people to read them. That you know they will live on, far longer than you could ever dream.
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I think that everyone will live on through other people.
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okay^^ amazingly accurate, yet inaccurate all the same.
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^^ well... I kinda believe you. my lot is on vampirism...
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e. e. cummings is my favourite poet. ever since ninth grade.
he once said "A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his or her feelings through words. this may sound easy. It isn't...the moment you feel, your nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else. this means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting...if at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feling you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed...does this sound dismal? It isn't. It is the most wonderful thing in the world."
this is literally the quote that inspired me to even attempt to write poetry. heh, and guess where i found it? in my lit. book for school.
who knew text books were actually handy?
you are a poet.
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^_^
Textbooks have their moments. Every now and then. Gotta love those random quotes.
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i know! im adicted to random quotes!
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