An epigraph is a short quote at the beginning of a book or chapter that introduces its theme. To set our intentions for our work together this semester, I have gathered several epigraphs for our English 2500 class. I offer these passages to you as a way of organizing our thoughts about writing– its purpose and possibilities. Please read the following epigraphs. Then complete the writing exercise below, based on these epigraphs.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. James Baldwin
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
A poetry of the meaning of words /and a bond with the universe. / I think there is no light in the world / but the world. / And I think there is light. George Oppen
Make up a storyFor our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Dont tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us beliefs wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fears caul*. Toni Morrison
Writing, for me, is a search for god. Carson McCullers
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. Susan Sontag
Poetrythe kind that does in fact give us the world as we had not seen it, that makes us question what we had thought we knew (and this is finally the only thing I am willing to call poetry)poetry is the result of a generative restlessness of the imagination. Carl Phillips
It is the function of poetry to declare the zones within us that would be free and declare them so. C.D. Wright
Once you have read these epigraphs, craft your own original epigraph for the work you hope to complete in English 2500. Then, let it introduce 2 double spaced pages reflecting on how this epigraph will inform your writing and reading in the coming months. You can discuss your past relationship with literature and writing and your goals for the course. I look forward to reading these!
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