Comments on: Bring on the Wallace Stevens http://www.mlarson.org/2008/06/09/bring-on-the-wallace-stevens/ this what i like Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:44:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BRUSHWORK: sketchbook pages by Austin Kleon http://www.mlarson.org/2008/06/09/bring-on-the-wallace-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-91592 BRUSHWORK: sketchbook pages by Austin Kleon Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:30:08 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/?p=1293#comment-91592 [...] BRUSHWORK Monday, June 16th, 2008 I prefer to think I’m just a man, not a poet part time, business man the rest….I’m no different from anyone else, just a run of the mine person. I like painting, books, poems. In my younger days I liked girls. But let’s not stress that. I have a wife.— Wallace Stevens [...]

]]> By: Mark Larson http://www.mlarson.org/2008/06/09/bring-on-the-wallace-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-91462 Mark Larson Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:33:27 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/?p=1293#comment-91462 Jen, I thought that was a cool turn of phrase, too. I wonder if it's a northern idiom? Austin, it looks like Stevens & Williams already had a jump on our beloved instructions for <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000876.html" rel="nofollow">How to be Creative</a>, part #7. I *think* I'm starting to understand that part. Jen, I thought that was a cool turn of phrase, too. I wonder if it’s a northern idiom?

Austin, it looks like Stevens & Williams already had a jump on our beloved instructions for How to be Creative, part #7. I *think* I’m starting to understand that part.

]]> By: Austin Kleon http://www.mlarson.org/2008/06/09/bring-on-the-wallace-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-91458 Austin Kleon Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:01:26 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/?p=1293#comment-91458 Funny that both Stevens and Williams had good day jobs: Stevens the insurance man, Williams the pediatrician. Hmmm... Funny that both Stevens and Williams had good day jobs: Stevens the insurance man, Williams the pediatrician. Hmmm…

]]> By: Jen http://www.mlarson.org/2008/06/09/bring-on-the-wallace-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-91456 Jen Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:52:09 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/?p=1293#comment-91456 It's interesting that he says "run of the mine" rather than "run of the mill," isn't it? You pull your daily bread from what comes out of the mill, while you can pull either your hearth fires or your diamonds from deep in the heart of the mine. It’s interesting that he says “run of the mine” rather than “run of the mill,” isn’t it? You pull your daily bread from what comes out of the mill, while you can pull either your hearth fires or your diamonds from deep in the heart of the mine.

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