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Just interested in who first inspired you to write???

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tosakarade

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I just thought it might be interesting to find out the sources of your inspirations. Who's poetry or writing first really appealed to you and why?
The first poet I found who really made me able to empathise with his work was Kenneth Slessor, an Australian poet.
 
I cant even remember the poem or the poet.
But it was in yr11 English.
We had a great teacher and the fist lesson ever he showed us a poem that started...
"Your parents fuck you up you know!"
The students were in shock... but he got a lot of respect from us, one of the best teachers ive had, and the best poems...pity i cant remember it now.
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Dont Call Me
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Unless you can see inside my head, you couldn't possibly understand... I'm happier when things are falling appart... but you'll never know, just by looking at me!
- Less Than Jake -
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The poem you're thinking about (I think) is by Philip Larkin, an English poet who lived in a very dreary city called Hull. He wasn't much fun as a person (and all that jazz) but:
The poem is:
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself."
 
the person that most aspired me to start writing was two different people.. my 8th grade reading teacher and my 11th grade english teacher. they just made me realize that there is more to poetry then rhymed lines.
 
my 8th grade english teacher...she was a bitch...in all honesty. I hated her damn class. We were *forced* to write in journals every week. But she wouldn't read it, she would just count the pages. Well i started getting creative one day, then i started to write EVERYDAY...and well there it is. I guess her bitchy ways paid off.
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~*~"you've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like its never going to hurt"
 
I was inspired when I was just a little tike. I would sit up in bed and read Shel Silverstein late into the night. I wanted to write the stuff he did so badly, I had almost all of "A Light in the Attic" stored into my central processing unit! I did not start writing back then, infact I think my name was about all I could write! My writings began to take form my sophmore year in high school, and the twisting of the ordinary showed up in much of my work. No one really inspired me to sit down and write, infact I was totally embarressed of the fact that I found so much excitement in arranging and scrambling my own thoughts. I thought it was something that only weird and depressed people did. Now I have no regrets.
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i didnt really start writing poetry at all until i was in 7th grade and was pretty damn depressed... i dunno.... ever since then i just write whenever things come to me... i find that writing is my release, a way to express myself better than any other way i know, and sometimes to even find out how i feel - a way to work out my own emotions as well as letting them out
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I've always been writing... but the first person to ever inspire me to really WRITE was the first person to ever break me heart.
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What difference do you think you can make? One single man in all this madness...?
 
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