Poetry = Anger x Imagination

“Survival = Anger × Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry…

— Jay Asher

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

— Arthur Rimbaud

When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what…

— Naoto Fukasawa

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

— Eduardo Galeano

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…

— Maya Angelou

My care will be in the heart n not in words My anger will be in Words n not in the Heart

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost.”

— Toba Beta

“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard

“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot and itchy,…

— Kylie Ladd