Four Quotes to Consider

“All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie.” — W. H. Auden



“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” —  Robert Frost

“I don't think we really have very much to tell poems; I think poems have a great deal to tell us.” — Marie Howe 

“These stories emerged from my black insides to die in another darkenss. I willed their existence, but I don’t know why. Except that in some dim way I wanted, myself, to have a soul, a special speech, a style. I wanted to be responsible where I could bear to be responsible…” 

— William Gass