Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

- Ellen Hunnicutt

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely …

- Ellen Hunnicutt

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual…

- Ellen Hunnicutt