Agree Quote by Albert Goldbarth

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

— Edwin Morgan

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost…

— Victoria Chang

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form…

— Octavius Winslow

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

— Gregory Orr

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the…

— Zachary Schomburg

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

— Robert Browning

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

— W. Sangster

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold