No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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