STAY CURIOUS, STAY HUMBLE

STAY CURIOUS, STAY HUMBLE  

“Through others, we become ourselves.” 

-Lev Vygotsky

“Don’t identify too strongly with your work.”

-Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones)

“Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.”

-Bruce Lee

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

-Paul Celan

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."”

-H.L. Mencken

Cameron Conaway once told me, “Writers do not suffer from writer’s block, they suffer from curiosity block.”

The artist’s path benefits from, if not requires, lifelong curiosity.