Poetry keeps longing alive.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

— Erwin McManus

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

— Louise Closser Hale

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

— Maya Angelou

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth…

— John Wesley

All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of…

— Robert Bly

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche…

— Nick Antosca

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some…

— Anonymous

“My only enemy is the miles of distance that's there between us, my favorite place is the road that leads me to you -…

— Jyoti Patel

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn’t mean anything.”

— Kevin O'Brien

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the…

— Esther Perel

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

— Simone Weil