PHRASES
ABOUT THE ART
OF WRITING
D
E F I N I T I
O N : "To
express oneself
by means of Writing"
- Compose (literary,
scientific working,
etc)." (Houaiss
Dictionary)
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Alcina
Maria Silva Azevedo
- Poet, Brazilian
writer
Writing is the
art of flying,
where I am be
able to create
and transport
myself to a fairer
world.
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Alexa
Wolf - Writer,
Poet, Portuguese
artist
Writing is to
abandon my body
and let my soul
to order the letters,
carrying the dreams,
the magic, the
lightness of the
Ego. Since I was
a child I began
to write and it
gave me a great
pleasure, it released
me even for minutes
from all the problems
of the moment.
Unfortunately,
the family had
established prejudices
against writers
and poets ( something
that always irritated
me, as my maternal
grandfather gave
us a poetry book
but this is lost
in the time, nobody
knows the title,
so...not a thing)
much to my displeasure.
He had an early
death, 33 years
old only. I have
never met him.
I thought that
if I read his
book, I would
had a bit of him,but
although I did
not have this
honour, I believe
that the same
sensitive blood
of him runs in
my veins, for
that reason I
think that I have
already a great
heredity from
him!
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Ana
Damasceno - Designer,
Brazilian poet
Writing is to
let the soul to
talk about the
feelings we live.
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Andelo
Sansivieri - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
be among the angels,
It's to lie down
on petals of roses,
it's to talk with
the hands, it's
to make come true
unfinished dreams,
it's to back to
life lost wishes,when
we have love.
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Antonio
Cândido
Paiva - Portuguese
Poet
Writing is to
talk silently
to the pen and
the paper.
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Antonio
Ramos Rosa - Poet,
Portuguese Essayist
Writing is always
a need to breathe
the letters which
provides the clamor
of being alive,
the lungs of the
dreams and with
them, create the
donation of the
poet.
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Armando
Souza - Poet,
writer, living
nowadays in Canada
Writing... to
travel from the
thought to the
paper.
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Arnold
Gonçalves
- Writer, Brazilian
poet
Writing is an
activity that
is very good to
the soul because
it leads who writes
to the auto analysis.
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Clarice
Lispector - Brazilian
writer, born in
Ukcraine
-
1925/1977
Writing is to
try understand.
It's to try to
repeat which is
unreproducible.
It's to feel until
the last end the
feeling that would
remain hardly
vague and stifling.
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Clarice
Lispector - Brazilian
writer, born in
Ukcraine
-
1925/1977
I write as if
I went to save
the life of someone.
Probably my own
life.
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Clarice
Lispector - Brazilian
writer, born in
Ukcraine
-
1925/1977
I write without
the hope of what
I write change
anything. It does
not change nothing...Because
on the botton,
people do not
want to change
the things. People
want to spring
in one way or
another.
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Claudia
Letti - Brazilian
writer
Who writes must
know that the
creations are
not theirs any
longer, but are
from whom read
it...
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Delmo
Biuford de Souza
- Poet, composer,
Brazilian Government
employee
When I write,
I vomit the soul.
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Denise
Severgnini - Brazilian
teacher
Writing is to
undress the soul
before the letters,
to transfer to
them our emotions
and to talk about
the feelings from
the heart.
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Dudu
Cruz - Musician,
percussionist,
Write articles,
Brazilian eletronic
designer
Writing is a great
relieve, a mirror
of my soul where
then I can see:
"I'm so beautiful"
!!!
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Dudu
Cruz - Musician,
percussionist,
Write articles,
Brazilian eletronic
designer
What I write is
what I think,
what I live is
what I believe,
what I believe...the
word is very strong
and our language,
Portuguese, is
very delicious
to play on words.
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Eugène
lonesco - Theatrical
french writer
- From Romania
We must write
to ourselves,
so that we can
reach the others.
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Fabiana
fraga da Rosa
- Brazilian writer
Writing is to
pluck a guitar
with the songs
of the soul. It's
to transmite all
what the heart
wants to say through
the writing. It's
talking through
the sound of the
letters and the
talent of the
inspiration.
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Fabrício
Carpinejar - Brazilian
Poet
When I love, I
write for fear
of forgetting
the desire. When
I suffer, I write
to desire the
oblivion.
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Francisco
Bacon - English
philosopher
Reading complete
the human being;
Talking make him
agile.
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Francisco
Jose Raposo Ferreira
- Portuguese poet
Writing is to
release the hidden
being who is inside
of me. It's to
transform myself
into another person.
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Gabriel
de Souza - Writer,
sometimes poet,
Portuguese pensioner
Writing is a lonely
act but it must
be shared.
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Georges
Perros [Pseudonym
of Georges Poulot]
- French writer
- 1923/1978
We write because
nobody hears us.
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Gustavo
Dourado - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
inscribe in the
book of the destiny
our many expressions
about life...
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From
the book: Expression
Linguistics Communication
- Author: Herminio
G. Sargentim
The
word, mainly written,
is a means from
which you know
the inside and
outside of the
reality. With
it, you will be
able to approach
much more to the
things, people
and above of all,
to yourself. It
represents a microscope
which makes possible
to see, feel and
find the wonderful
world of the human
being.
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From
the book: Expression
Linguistics Communication
- Author: Herminio
G. Sargentim
An
artist is not
born complete.
On the other hand,
all the process
about writing
represents a constant
examination about
the world and
about it's own
language that
he use to describe
this world. In
all the great
artists we can
always find an
evolution. You
did not know to
write when you
was born. You
learnt to write.
Someone taught
you. The language
in not innate
but acquired.
Do not feel frustated
then if you can
not compose a
book in the same
level from which
you have read.
You must know
that these textes
were not the first
ones that those
authors wrote.But
It is necessary
do not be afraid.
Do not be afraid
of the books you
have already read.
Do not be afraid
to start writing
and critizise
what oneself write.
A persistent critize
attitude in front
of what you produce
is going to let
you a constant
evolution. Writing
can cover two
necessities:
1.ª
- Express the
emotions and feelings
that we feel in
front of the world
and people.
2.º-
Comunicate our
ideas and opinions
to our social
and professional
relations.
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Hermany
Tafuri - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
create alternative
worlds from particularly
universal feelings.
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Humberto
Soares Santa -
Portuguese poet
Writing is the
necessity for
all those,which
soul brims with
feelings that
make them share
their dreams and
experience with
the others.
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
Writing is to
breathe...
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
I love writing.
It's my escape
from all the bad
things in life
and the word.
I am 32 yeard
old and I appoint
myself like "
a fireman in service".
All
that includes
magination, objectivity
and mental effort
is where I feel
as I like. In
spite of all,
I love what I
do and this is
the most important.
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
Initially, my
literary process
began when I was
6 years old. It
was when I received
my first book.
I hardly knew
the letters of
the alphabet.
My grandfather
offered me "The
message"
written by Fernando
Pessoa. From then
I have never stopped
reading and writing.
I am a person
who loves to absorb
"lifes"
, situations.
All around make
part of my imaginary
world and I feel
very pleased with
it.
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
I have always
hidden what I
wrote. Even now,
I keep a diary
which I will never
publish. With
the innovation
of the Internet,
I began to spread
myself and all
that I wrote,
I did always with
my name. I have
nothing against
pseudonyms but
I love myself
and my name too.
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
Among projects
I have always
written when the
inspiration spring
and I have made
several web sites
to publish its.
The inspiration
or so, spring
on my mind either
awake or asleep...
How many times
I woke at down
and stayed writing
until the work
hour... Many...
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Isabel
Fontes - Portuguese
writer
I am very pleased
with the poetry
area, such as;
prose, stories,
or articles...
I love writing
and put all the
ideas which come
up on my mind
to the paper.
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Ismênia
Nunes - Brazilian
poet
Writing is just
to write. There
is nothing to
fear, neither
of writing, pleasing
or upsetting the
others... we must
have the courage
to write.
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Iva
da Silva - Teacher,
poet, Brazilian
Investigator
Writing is a way
to tell the things.
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Jorge
Fernando dos Santos
- Writer, Brazilian
composer
Writing is to
share ideas and
feelings. It is
to open the lockgates
of the soul. It's
to give wings
to the inside
of yourself.
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José-Augusto
de carvalho -
Portuguese writer
Writing is an
impulse and a
necessity of intervene.
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José
Maciel - Actor,
Brazilian Poet
Writing is to
bring out by means
of the words,
all sorts of feelings:
Love, hate, nostalgia,
humor, curiosity,
doubts, knowledge,
fiction, dreams
and reality.
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José
alberto Abib -
Brazilian poet
Writing is a link
between the soul
and the world
that rise like
magic, because
it represents
with all the possible
and necessary
evidence, the
emotional expressiveness
of each moment.
"It is the
silent voice of
your heart".
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Joseph
Conrad - English
writer of Polonaise
origin -1857/
1924
The author writes
only the half
of his book. The
other half is
part of the reader.
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Julio
Cortázar
- Romance writer,
Argentinian teller,
born in Belgium
- 1914/ 1984
Writing is to
battle for the
word continously.
A combat that
have something
about a secret
alliance.
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Júlio
Dantas - Poet,
Portuguese prose
writer - 1876/
1962
The most difficult
is not to write
much. The most
difficult is to
tell everything
writing a few
words.
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Lêdo
Ivo - Poet, romance
writer, Brazilian
Essayist
Some people write
to save the humanity
or to incite the
class struggle.
Other
people right to
perpetuate themselves
on the manual
of literature
or to conquer
positions and
honors.The best
ones are who writes
for the pleasure
of writing.
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Ligi@Tomarchio®
- Poet, Brazilian
writer
The hand that
writes is a lightning
of freedom. It
wants to know
the arm which
gives movement
to it. It wants
to discover the
body that carry
it. The driver
head. The essence
that make the
writer.
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Ligi@Tomarchio®
- Poet, Brazilian
writer
Writing
is relief, autotherapy,
to find the hidden
ego in the dark,
after twilight,
without the stars
and the moon above
the firmament.
Infinite conflicts!
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Lourdes
Neves Cúrcio
- Brazilian Poet
Writing is to
exteriorize what
we have in our
soul. It is to
mix reality and
fantasy. It is
to express feelings
contained inside
on the marrow.
This sort of feelings
that set a place
on the breast
without enough
space to cover
it.
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Lucêmio
Lopez - Brazilian
writer
Only two things
that I do in my
life are real:
love and writing.
The rest is illusion.
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Lucêmio
Lopez - Brazilian
writer
I do not know
if my soul was
born to right.
I only know that
if I do not write,
it dies.
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Lucy
Salete Bortolini
Nazaro - Poet,
writer, university
Brazilian teacher
Writing is like
makes sex. When
we are loving
passionatelly.
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Luz
Sampaio - Writer,
Brazilian poet
Writing in a moment
in time, which
this moment in
time, perhaps
can change the
future of a reader...
I think about
,socially talking,
if we are partly
responsable for
the increase of
the wrong things
in the word ,
then, I try to
write today based
on this thought.
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Mardilê
Friedrich Fabre
- Brazilian teacher
Writing is to
pass from the
soul to the paper.
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Margaret
Artwood - Writer,
poet, Canadian
critical
Writing is to
leave a mark.
It is to impose
on the black and
white paper a
constant sign.
It is to capture
an instant in
a shape of a word.
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Margaret
Artwood - Writer,
poet, Canadian
critical
Writing is in
some sense, when
the person is
survived by the
voice.
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Maria
Glessa Ramalho
Bezerra Braga
- Poet, Brazilian
writer
Writing it is
the skill at writing
and sharing with
the world things
such as: feelings,
ideas, several
works, and encourage
people to feel
happy when they
read it.
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Maria
Inês Simões
- Writer, Brazilian
Poet
To produce ideas
through the art
of writing is
not worth if there
are not the receiver,
who reconstructes
the themes expressed
on words.
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Maria
José Zanini
Tauil - Teacher,
writer, Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
overflow what
flood on the heart.
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Marina
Bernal - Writer,
Brazilian English
teacher
Writing is to
dream awake and
feel in your hands,
your secrets dreams
come true openly.
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Mário
de Miranda Quintana
- Poet, translator,
Brazilian Journalist.
1906/ 1994
The
child who plays
and the poet who
makes a poem are
both in the same
magic age.
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Mário
de Miranda Quintana
- Poet, translator,
Brazilian Journalist.
1906/ 1994
I write
without thinking
all that my unconscious
shout. Then I
think, not only
to correct but
also to justify
what I wrote.
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Mário
Feijó -
Plastic artist,
Brazilian poet
Writing is the
art of expressing
through graphic
symbols, the feelings
and all that is
in our soul.
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Marques
Rebelo (literary
name of Edi Dias
da Cruz), journalist,
teller, writer
of articles, novelist,Brazilian
romance writer
Writing is to
telling words.
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Marta
Rodriguez - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
venture oneself
in an imaginary
word. It is to
travel in the
reality of the
dreams. It is
to share joy and
sad on words that
come from the
heart.
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Martin
Amis - British
writer
Writing is an
act of freedom.
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Mônica
Ferreira Camargo
- Brazilian, Graduated
in Psychology
Writing is to
put my feelings
on words.
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Nancilia
Pereira - Brazilian
poet
I write for pleasure,
confidence.
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Nancilia
Pereira - Brazilian
poet
I do not think
to write. I feel
and write!
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Nicolas
Boileau-Despreaux
- Poet, prose
author, french
historiographer
- 1636/ 1711
Before writing,
therefore, learn
to think.
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Nilda
Dias Tavares -
Writer, Brazilian
poet
Writing is the
most efficient
therapy to the
evils of the heart!
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Nilda
Dias Tavares -
Writer, Brazilian
poet
Writing is a necessity!
I need to put
on the paper my
emotions, my feelings.
I write either
when I am sad
or when I am happy!
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Pablo
Neruda - Diplomat,
consul, writer
Chilean - 1904/1973
Writing is easy:
You start with
a capital letter
and finish with
a full stop. In
the middle you
put the ideas.
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Pierre-Jules
Renard - French
writer - 1864/
1910
Writing is a way
to talk without
being interrupted.
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Ricardo
De Benedictis
- Poet, thinker,
writer of articles,
teller,translator
Italian-Portugues,
italo-Brazilian
journalist
The
exercise of the
Reading takes
the reader to
write. There is
no writer that
do not like reading
or do not read.
And the most he
does, the better
he expresses himself.
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Roland
Barthes - Writer,sociologist,
literary critic,
doctorated in
symptomatology,
French philosopher
- 1915/ 1980
Writing is to
shake the sense
of the world.
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Roque
Lande Rocha -
Writer, Brazilian
poet
Writing: The only
exercise of a
complete freedom.
All is allowed.
The paper neither
does not have
censure, nor restriction;
but there is complicity.
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Rosimeire
Leal da Motta
- Writer, Brazilian
poet
The most gratifying
is to be able
to spread our
thoughts all over
the word, passing
on a part of ourselves
to the others.
Yes, as what a
person writes
reveals a lot
of herself. It
is delightful
when I write a
text and observe
that there is
a lot of me there.
It was a part
of my individuality
that I gave to
the others.
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Rubens
Jardim - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
submerge oneself
in the ocean of
the symbols.
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Silas
Correa Leite -
Brazilian. Education
theorist,Community
Journalist ,(Youthful
Cultures) FAPESP-USP's
coordinator of
investigations
Writing is to
put a sky on the
hope. If the hope
is the intelligence
of the life, writing
is to give a dream
of letters to
a perspective,
- after the horrible
search of the
globalization
- to a humanism
of results. I
like more to right
than to exist.
Writing is to
give the testimony
and the bitterness
of my time.
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Silvia
Trevisani - Writer,
Brazilian poet
Writing is to
create life.
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Simone
Pinheiro - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
convert the feenlings
into words.
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Sonia
Nogueira - Teacher,
Brazilian poet
Writing is to
sculpt the spelling
of the thoughts.
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Tereza
Neumann Ferreira
de Assis - Brazilian
poet
Writing is to
find my essence
in my soul and
to bring out from
it: loveliness,
tenderness, love,
feelings of splendor
and pure sensitivity.
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Valdeck
Almeida de Jesus
- Writer, poet,
Brazilian Journalist
student
Writing
is to give birth
to words, to put
children in the
world. Every phrase
that I write is
as if I gave birth
to another son.
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W.
Somerset Maugham
-French writer
- 1874-1965
Writing with simplicity
is so difficult
as write well.
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Yara
Mª de M.
Nazaré
- Brazilian -
Philosophy Teacher
and Scenic Arts
/ Education: Postgraduate
course
Writing
is to register
my feelings,my
moments so that
I can remember
and compare every
lived fhase.
