“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs…

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs…
WOW by Hafiz, as translated by Daniel Ladinsky Where does the real poetry Come from? From the amorous sighs In…
When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in…
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality…
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and…
“Your day's work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, 'When I write I feel…
“Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just…
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
“…I am writing poems and they take the marrow of my energy. Things stir and buzz in my mind but…