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“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.”

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“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.”

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“THE THINGS POETS & WRITERS DO THAT I LOVE Listen to the Ancestors Acknowledge their influences Trust their gut-feelings and act on them Maintain openness. Play Dance with languages Be bold Refuse servility Avoid arrogance Embrace the unknown Love the journey Respect one’s fellow journeyers”

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“Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won't let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don't take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor.”

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“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.”

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“The burning off and the gathering together are one.”

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Book:Singing the snake: Poems from the western desert, 1979-1988

Source: Singing the snake: Poems from the western desert, 1979-1988

“The ending of a story tells us what it means.”

Author:Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing, and I guess I used to think about it that way too a long long time ago. But as I've lived my life and loved and lost friends and family, and seen dreams smashed and resurrected, and marveled at the pettiness, drear ambition and ignorance of the herd of which I am a part, I can no longer say that a poem or a story or a script comes from nothing. If it's any good, if it has any power, any potent emotional body, then it's something that a writer has paid for, not only in time, but in all the anxiety that accompanies living and those small fret-filled acts of becoming present that make it possible for us to see beyond our little patch of immediacy. It's not just a reaching out, but a reaching in, into the depths of our being from whence we've sprung.”

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“We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.”

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“Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.”

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“It's easy to be angry. It's difficult to control the anger.”

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