Writing Problems: Motivation

Apelles, Ponsot, Zimmer, Meyers, Ai, Hayden, Creeley, Butts

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Pliny the Elder, quoting Apelles of Kos:

Nulla dies sine linea.

[Not a day without a line.]

Marie Ponsot:

There is always time to write one line of poetry.

Of all poetry’s ironies and mysteries, we can take comfort in on…