“Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.”

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Timothy Ferriss29

American author, entrepreneur, angel investor and public sp… 1977

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 105

“Here, in the bare dark face of night
A calm unhurried eye draws sight
—We see in what we think we fear
The cloudings of our thought made clear”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 3 “Uninvited Guests” section IV (p. 104).

“It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.