"If you put ice on your skin, your skin turns pink. Your body sends blood there. If you think about..."

“If you put ice on your skin, your skin turns pink. Your body sends blood there. If you think about that in terms of writing, cool writing draws us, draws our heat.”

- Kay Ryan cited by Sarah Fry in The Art of Poetry No. 94, Kay Ryan

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/146063666472