Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. – Juan Goytisolo
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. Its never your fault. But its always your fault, because if you wanted to change youre the one who has got to change. – Katharine Hepburn