R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

Category: On Writing

  • Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers Just won’t tell you flat out about life.  So you just keep moving, keep living, keep breathing And you keep writing-creating because that’s what you do And that’s who you are. There are no magical voices to guide You except your own. Make it count.   ~…

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  •                       I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it — without knowing why. And since the human spirit naturally tends to make judgements based on feeling instead…

  • Everyday we lose a little part of ourselves to the rest of the world. The only thing we can do is save that part in our hearts, soul, retrieve it daily from the ashes And write. ~ R.M. Engelhardt

  • JACK KEROUAC 12 march 1922 – 21 october 1969 A poet is a fellow who spends his time thinking about what it is that’s wrong, and although he knows he can never quite find out what this wrong is, he goes right on thinking it out and writing it down. A poet is a blind…

  • Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline from his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity…

  •   The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.

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  • un-art and poetry to mere literality And he knew also that the duty of all art lay in this sort of truth, lay in the self-perceptive finding and proclaiming of truth, the duty which has been laid on the artist, so that the soul, realizing the great equilibrium between the ego and the universe, might…

  • “Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty – describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems…