{"id":14055,"date":"2015-03-06T04:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-pablo-neruda-on-originality\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:04:53","slug":"austinkleon-pablo-neruda-on-originality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-pablo-neruda-on-originality\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14055 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-pablo-neruda-on-originality\/attachment\/14056\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nkriq2ZPUs1qjzfl0o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/112841972126\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Pablo Neruda on originality<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annfriedman.com\/post\/112830065153\/ive-been-thinking-a-lot-about-the-illusion-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">annfriedman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about the illusion of pure originality ever since I read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4091\/the-art-of-poetry-no-14-pablo-neruda\">comment<\/a> from Pablo Neruda\u2026\u00a0I\u2019m putting this here to remind myself that next time I feel the desire to defend and clamp down on my work, it might be time to try making something new instead. And accept that even the new-for-me thing is not going to be totally original.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annfriedman.com\/post\/112830065153\/ive-been-thinking-a-lot-about-the-illusion-of\">Nice thoughts from Ann<\/a>. (Her newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/annfriedman.com\/weekly\">rules<\/a>.) Another bit from Neruda\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374527539\/wwwaustinkleo-20\/ref=nosim\/\"><i>Memoirs<\/i><\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t believe in originality. It is just one more fetish made up in our time, which is speeding dizzily to its collapse. I believe in personality reached through any language, any form, any creative means used by the artist. But out-and-out originality is a modern invention and an electoral fraud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/tagged\/originality\">originality<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>austinkleon: Pablo Neruda on originality annfriedman: I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about the illusion of pure originality ever since I read this comment from Pablo Neruda\u2026\u00a0I\u2019m putting this here to remind myself that next time I feel the desire to defend and clamp down on my work, it might be time to try making something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3EH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14057,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}