The Napa Valley Writers' Conference started Sunday and ends today
in the Napa Valley College Upper Valley.Campus. Last night I attended the
readings by Tayari Jones, fiction writer, author of Silver Sparrow and an
Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark
University and Eavan Boland, poet,
author of 10 books of poetry including Against Love Poetry and Professor of
Humanities at Stanford
University
"Live for awhile in the books you love.
Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will
be returned to you a thousand times over. Whatever your life may become, these
books — of this I am certain — will weave through the web of your unfolding.
They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences,
disappointments, and joys."-from Letter to a Young Poet-Rainer
Maria Rilke
1 comment:
I completely agree! Books are so wonderful (and especially important to me is the Bible which remains a constant source of strength and wisdom in my life).
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