"I Wish I Wrote That!" Wednesday

As an aspiring writer (and therefore, a voracious reader), I often find myself reading other authors and saying to myself "I wish I wrote that!"

I'm sooooo impressed by an author's ability to construct words into meaningful and fresh sentences, that I'd like to highlight them here on my blog each Wednesday.
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Acolytes
by Nikki Giovanni
William Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins)
Page 112

Excerpt from "We Write"

Writing is a frozen
Thought brought
To paper heated
By passions tempered
By sympathy defined
By facts colored
By desire


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I am a fan of poets who write about writing. It gives me insight on how they feel about words and their construction. It's like peeking inside their brain. Nikki has a lot of poems about poems. Those are the ones I look for when I get a book of hers. She was the first poet to inspire me to write poetry.

I wish I wrote that!