Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at h... - Gwendolyn Brooks

"Writing is a delicious agony."

"Poetry is life distilled."

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."