“The feminist act of de-creation is making something that one acknowledges will fail, will decay. The work will not endure.” - Lauren Elkin

“Artists do not seek to imitate form, but to create form; not to imitate life, but to find an equivalent for life.” - Roger Fry

“As I speak, blood is coursing through our bodies. As it moves away from the heart it marches to a 2/4 or a 4/4 beat and it's arterial blood, re-oxygenated, assertive, active, progressive, optimistic. When it reaches our extremities and turns toward home - the heart - well, it's nostalgic, it's venous blood (as in veins), it's tired, wavelike, rising and falling, fighting against gravity and inertia, and it moves to the beat of a waltz, a 3/4 beat, a little off, really homesick now, and full of longing. When we first write our poems, how arterial they seem! And when we go back to them, how venous they seem!” - Mary Ruefle