Failure Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Anonymous

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one…

— Jay Woodman

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers… One…

— Knut Hamsun

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side…

— Criss Jami

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the…

— William H. Gass