Why is this blog called confidante
Confidante (fem confidante) according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary means “a person that one trusts enough to speak to about one’s
private affairs or secrets.” In a way, this blog is a revealing of my soul. Yet
even with the revelations in poetry, in meditations, in diary entries and in
notes gathered here and there so many secrets remain not within reach of any
person, even the most “intimate” confidante. My professor in poetry once said
that we couldn’t be attached to ourselves in our poems since our words must
echo other people’s experiences too. This is why we ought to grasp the most
concrete image of our life’s instances in the hope that others may feel in
those images a kind of reverberation. A most peculiar thing happens in the
search for an image – I often lose the immediate experience and realize that
another secret reveals itself and the image formulates its own theme. In the
end, I may take up that new theme to echo something already said and in a
different way. But there you go; a new secret is revealed, and only to me. So
now, I become my own confidante.
Editing is another
confidante-thing. An author trusts you with the product of his creative juices
and allows you to see through backward and forward, read between the lines,
comment, or merely draw a red-line through his thoughts. Once entrusted with a
manuscript, I become a confidante.
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