Motivation For Writing Quotes

“[Mrs. Leonard:] 'I suppose I started to write poetry because I was unhappy. Happy people have no need of desperate resources. Unhappy people often do not adopt them. But people aware of internal discords must struggle to resolve them.'
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[Hugh Everton:] 'You think the poet writes to crush his misery? There must be other reasons....'

'There are other reasons. The soul climbs with poetry. But it is the soul that has been battered down by life that feels the need to climb.'
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'And how have you been battered, Mrs. Leonard, or is it wrong to ask?'

'Deserted. Hated. Betrayed. Rejected,' she cried with sudden force. 'To need love, to deserve love, to win the vilest hatred, to watch the ruin of the soul....”
― Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath