"There's nothing to writing all you do is set down at a typewriter and open a vein."

 -- Unknown 

"When people don't express themselves they die one piece at a time."

-- Unknown 

"I do not like to write... I like to have written."

-- Unknown

"If you cannot be the poet be the poem."

-- Unknown 

“My world falls apart, crumbles, “The center cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation. I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought. I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going—and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions. I long for a noble escape from freedom—I am weak, tired, in revolt from the strong constructive humanitarian faith which presupposes a healthy, active intellect and will. There is nowhere to go … “–Sylvia Plath, journal, November 3, 1952

"When your heart speaks, take good notes."

-- Judith Campbell

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

— Lord Byron