Curse Quote by Anne Sexton

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

— Anne Sexton

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating…

— Matthew Arnold

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the…

— Sylvia Plath

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to…

— Neil Simon

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

— Henry James

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

Let your poem be kept nine years.

— Horace

Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more complicated We…

— Colleen Hoover

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the…

— Glen Hansard

“The empty page before me now, the pen is in my hand…" ~Kansas”

— Jodie Andrefski

“With a pen in my hand I am fearless.”

— Adrienne Thompson