Curves Quote by Joan Baez

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of…

— Joan Baez

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and…

— Slash

Beauty fades , chrome rust, but an ugly piece of coal turns into a diamond..

— Micah Clark

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay

“That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in sudden specks and splinters, perhaps…

— Italo Calvino

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

— Edwidge Danticat

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

— Don DeLillo

“Mysterious My paper shines White, like snow, but the paper looks empty. I could decorate it with tiny spiders or stars or sketches of…

— Pat Mora

“This note was a jittery bomb ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day fiercely reread, in my purse all week until…

— Daniel Handler

“picture a pencil and eraser engaged in a beautiful dance across the page. The pencil's tip bursts with expression - squiggles, figures, words -…

— Adam Johnson