"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching out toward expression, an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the word.” “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Poet Robert Frost, who was born today (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Also born today was Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987), “Follow your bliss.” Campbell's 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which traced the common theme of the spiritual quest in myth, was an inspiration for many writers found the book valuable for their own work, including the poet Robert Bly and the filmmaker George Lucas, who said that without it, he would never have been able to write Star Wars.
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