urge quotes

The absence of the urge to create is decadence.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Decadence'.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

- Carl Sandburg
Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urgethat impelswomento cleanhouse in the middle of the night.

-James Grover Thurber
  Alarms and Diversions,'There's A Time For Flags'.