isidro
09-22-2009, 11:13 PM
I know we all love literature but like many lovers we don't often express how we feel about something. I'd like you to share what literature means to you and/or what brought you to love it as you presently do.
Literature and writing has always been a solace to me. Of all the arts, it is the one which expresses itself most truly to my soul and writing has often acted as a comfort when most lonely and sad. Paper is, as Anne Frank so beautifully believed, patient, and it accepts us regardless of our flaws, mistakes, shortcomings and fears. And it is a place where one can hide from reality, become enveloped in the healing power of language, and find limitless friendship in the form of pages and ink. I have been suicidal in the past, abused in many ways, ravaged by a semi on the freeway which I gratefully survived, and many other extreme and powerful events have been my constant lot. Life is not always kind, I fear. But literature is a home without pain, without personal judgment of your insecurities, and allows us the opportunity to lose ourselves within it and consequently stand to our fullest heights without being hindered, mocked, or tied down.
Literature and writing has always been a solace to me. Of all the arts, it is the one which expresses itself most truly to my soul and writing has often acted as a comfort when most lonely and sad. Paper is, as Anne Frank so beautifully believed, patient, and it accepts us regardless of our flaws, mistakes, shortcomings and fears. And it is a place where one can hide from reality, become enveloped in the healing power of language, and find limitless friendship in the form of pages and ink. I have been suicidal in the past, abused in many ways, ravaged by a semi on the freeway which I gratefully survived, and many other extreme and powerful events have been my constant lot. Life is not always kind, I fear. But literature is a home without pain, without personal judgment of your insecurities, and allows us the opportunity to lose ourselves within it and consequently stand to our fullest heights without being hindered, mocked, or tied down.