I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a commitment to fully experiencing life, suggesting that all experiences, even the strange, will later yield artistic inspiration.
Isaac Rosenberg emphasizes the importance of embracing all aspects of life, especially the unusual and extraordinary, as a means of personal and artistic growth. He believes that by immersing oneself in the complexities of life, one can later transform these experiences into something beautiful, like poetry. This reflects the idea that art often emerges from the authentic and raw experiences of living.
In practice
In a creative writing workshop, the instructor could use this quote to inspire students to draw from their life experiences.
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.
I didn't know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in 'Zone One' and what to ignore.
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