“Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--”

“Therefore, whatever may be the nature of our anxiety, we should endeavour to dispel it by the consideration that there may be already existing other facts we do not know of which will produce a different result from the one we fear, and that in any case there is a power which can produce new facts in answer to our appeal to it.”

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful letters to your friends, the most lucid reports to your superiors, you will never produce a poem or a play or a story. You may make a journalist but you will never make an author.”

“Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)”

“I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.”

“Writing The Breastplate was a labor of love and inspiration. Hopefully Ican get inspired for a sequel that readers are asking for. Shirley McCracken author of The Breastplate”