"Thinking is our working"
June 17, 2010 1:11 PM   Subscribe

In Jane Campion's Bright Star, what exactly did Brown have to say about poets working but not looking busy?

I've been able to find part of his great little rant, which includes "thinking is our working; we are opening ourselves up to inspiration," but I feel like there was more to it than that. Doesn't he say something about how, even if they don't look busy, they're hard at work and not to be disturbed? I don't have access to the movie, unfortunately, so I can't look it up. Any ideas?
posted by 6and12 to Media & Arts (2 answers total)
 
Well, if you're willing to trust this transcript, it goes something like this:
Mr. B: If Mr. Keats and myself are strolling in a meadow, lounging on a sofa or staring into a wall, do not presume we're not working. Doing nothing is the musing of the poet.

FB: Are these musings what we common people know as thoughts?

Mr. B: Thoughts, yes, but of a weightier nature.

FB: Sinking thoughts?

Mr. B: Not really, Miss Brawne. Musing, making one's mind available to inspiration.
posted by steef at 1:22 PM on June 17, 2010 [2 favorites]


FWIW, It's streaming on Netflix.
posted by kidelo at 3:55 PM on June 17, 2010


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