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Creativity

In Praise of Aphorisms

Grahame Lockey writes pithy observations to make you think about pithy observations to make you think.

I once sat down to write a poem. Four words into it, I realised it was complete. It didn’t want a title, it wanted to be left alone:

Absence begins at home.

I didn’t know what it was that I had written, but it wasn’t a poem. If I had thought it through to a poem, it would have unwritten itself in the reader’s mind, leaving nothing.

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