"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul." -Dieter F Uchtdorf

"From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring— " -Poe, "Alone"

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself." -Mark Twain

“I believe that Magic is Art and Art, whether it be music, writing,
sculpture or any other, is literally magic. Art, like any magic,
the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve
changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to manipulate
words, to change people’s consciousness” – Alan Moore

"--but [the poem] is my baby! I birth-ed it from
the loins of my mind, and the afterbirth of creativity
is anxiety." -Me (Gwenivere Thorsen)