Essayist aesthetic

Few musicians are as word-drunk as Mr. Nick Cave from Warracknabeal, Australia, wouldn’t you agree? As a younger man Cave kept a journal in which he jotted down new words he wanted to remember and arranged them in alphabetical order. It’s definitely a good tip for writers starting out, you’re always learning, there’s always something to learn. Take notes endlessly and don’t waver! A section from the A’s and a section from the M’s was made available a few years ago, words include AUTOCHTHON…

Philosophy Vault on Instagram: "Sylvia Plath: “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as…

Eighteenth-century British poet, essayist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said, 'There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.' He probably knew