Great writers

So lately I have been on a beng of sorts.
A reading and writing beng that is. I started a story the other day, I don't know if it is a novel or a short story or what it is but I'm in love with it so far. Not to pat my own shoulder ungraciously but I do love the way it is turning out. It's like I know this story already and I wrote it before, it is so weird that when I sit down to write I can concentrate on what I'm writing and very rarely do I have to think overly hard to move on to the next part.
I'm not lost, I'm not bored, I'm not unfocused.
And that is amazing when it comes to writing a completly ficticious work for me. For the last couple of years those were the problems that I ran into whenever I tried to sit down and write a fiction peice.
It seems I'm inspired again.
It also seems I owe the credit to a very old author that I just happened to stumble upon some meraculous way, his name? you ask. Italo Calvino.
I have never heard anyone speak about him, I have never read an article about him, nor have I been assigned any of his work in school- Nor have a read a complete peice from him...this is how great a writer this guy is.
That he can inspire me to write without me having to read anything but a few paragraphs by him.
I read the beginning of his last novel of which I can not remember the name- not for the lack of entertainment it brought to my mind but for the excess of weed I have endured in my past {&As a side note I'd like to add that I quit, thank you thank you very much.}
Anywhoz I'm going to stop by the library one of these days and actually read the entire thing.
If you're interested in reading this man I also found a link for his book the invisible cities which begins pretty awesomely, its not the whole thing but its enough to give you a cooky quizical look on your face and want to keep reading to discover just how unique an author he is..
http://books.google.com/books?id=5AokCxyISuIC&pg=PA7&sig=owxNzQNRlgeHJ67QIDtyX1POn7A#v=onepage&q&f=false

I also have been devouring Shakespeare lately. Now that is something truly weird, I hated Shakespeare as a younging and pretty much as an adolescent. I mean I hated Shakespeare even up to last year. I could not understand for the life of me his language- But now, I devour it like gobble gobble gobble. I shocks me to the depths of my soul honestly. I finished reading the twelth night last night and this morning I started King Lear which I am finding to be quite fulfilling :)

But what I am in love with again is poetry, I seemed to have reawakened the love with a little book by A.A. Milne called now we are six. Of which I actually felt inclined to record myself reading several of the poems.

Hmmm. Calvino, Shakespeare, Milne It seems the dead are speaking to me...
(Not to mention that suddenly {And I mean suddenly.}I have been dying for the past couple of hours to watch the lord of the rings trilogy... I may even want to read it in a few weeks the way I've been going.{This is particularly odd since I have always been inclined to hate even the trailers of this movie. And I did try to read this before as a child. Snooze. But who knows now.})

One author whom I hope is alive and well spoke to me loud and clear today whilst searching for the first authors work I stumbled upon a little somebody who only bears an avatar and screen name Darkness of an Angel on a website I honestly never heard of before.
A poem named You are reading this too fast

You are reading this too fast.
Slow down, for this is poetry
and poetry works slowly.
Unless you live with it a while
the spirit will never descend.
It's so easy to quickly cut across the surface
and then claim there was nothing to find.
Touch the poem gently with your eyes
just as you would touch a lover's flesh.
Poetry is an exercise in patience,
you must wait for it to come to you.
The spirit manifests in many guises;
some quiver with beauty,
some vibrate with song.
What is happening?
Slow down, slow down,
take a few deep breaths,
read the poem slowly,
read the lines one at the time,
read the words one by one,
read the spaces between the words,
get sleepy, this is poetry,
relax until your heart
is vulnerable, open open.

If you want to read this yourself go ahead. The link is below.
http://www.animeonline.net/f125/you-reading-too-fast-4-23-a-26779

Anywhoz thats all I wanted to share. Now I'm off to watch the fellowship of the rings...



Could it be that I have finally accepted my geekatude?