In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is…

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form…

— Simon Critchley

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too…

— Robert Hass

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

— Richard M. Nixon

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Things get the darkest before dawn.

— Joe Dirt

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

— Joel Osteen

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

— Angelique Kerber

“The darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

— Paulo Coelho The Alchemist

“darkest before the dawn. it will get darker. be light.”

— Suheir Hammad

“Remember it’s always darkest before the dawn.”

— Demi Lovato

The darkest hour was just before dawn.

— Paulo Coelho

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only…

— Orson Bean