Michael Allyn Wells

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."  ~Oscar Wilde

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion. ~ Albrecht Durer

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it bloss...

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I...

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.  ~ John Doone

I started this weekend Friday night dog sitting for my son. This lent itself well to getting some reading and writing done however Saturday ...

"I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so." - Elizabeth Bishop

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~ Jacques Cousteau Everyone  would do well to find the p...

        "I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."- Sylvia Plath

"And By the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The wo...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wro...

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~ Voltare

Utility is the dream of every poem, large or small. Does each word carry, embryonically, the intent of the entire poem? Dave Smith, Local As...

It's only June and the a/c struggles - what is July and August going to be like?  I'm just saying... Did some office work I cart...

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher