“When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of opening up the part of the brain that makes poems. If I'm successful in this part of the process I'm often not. If my mind gets too lazy it will linger in familiar boring territory, it's like my mind can stroke the physical world.” ThinkingWorldWritingTryingMindBrainSuccessfulBoringFamiliarLazyWriting Poetry Author:Dawn Lundy Martin
“The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you think you see something but you're not sure you actually saw it in the end. The way I get to these places is just practice, like a kind of meditation that shapes my brain.” ThinkingKindMomentsEyeBrainVisionMeditationNot SureLazinessBlur Author:Dawn Lundy Martin