Agony Quote by Amy Lowell

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

— Robert Bly

“To write a poems needs a lot of pain to generate a little cure”

— Dwi Kuzuma

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

— Sandra Cisneros

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

— Edward Hirsch

It is the most annoyingly painful feeling in the world when there is someone willing to write until their fingers have ached as much…

— Needa Muy

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss…

— Christian Wiman

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

— Vijay Seshadri