Chantel DaCosta

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

“I said, “All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”
― Neil Gaiman