“Love the words,” expressed the poet Dylan Thomas in a play we saw last night.
His point was if you “love words” then they will serve you well.
In an interview Thomas related how his “love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always.”
It’s a simple and yet profound insight, but it is helpful – and perhaps even essential (in the long term) – to love the tools that we use in our work.
When asked how one becomes a writer, for example, Annie Dillard responded, “I don’t know. Do you love sentences?” A Wimbledon champion once shared how he fell in love with the sport when he fell in love with the smell of a just opened can of tennis balls.
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