Reading, listening to music, watching movies, writing poems, and hanging out with friends
poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. but of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things -t.s. eliot
fool!, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write -sir phillip sidney
often we use writing as a way to receive notice, attention, love. we are good people before we ever write a word -natalie goldberg