Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think…

— Oliver Sacks

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God…

— Philip James Bailey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home…

— Natasha Trethewey

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic…

— Diane Ackerman

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick…

— Colin Wilson

“Love makes temporary saints and poets of us all. We feel the source of life welling up inside us and long to express the…

— John Maxwell Taylor

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and…

— John of Kronstadt

“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every…

— Anonymous

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri