Bones Quote by Andrea Gibson

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these…

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Gulzar

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

— Robert Bly

Only poetry can address grief.

— Starhawk

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

“sad is the poem i will never write”

— Jeet how Romentic

“I am thinking of Achilles’ grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told…

— Tobias Wolff

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

— Pablo Neruda

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.”

— Sanober Khan

“And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this shared sorrow,…

— Robyn Schneider

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”

— bell hooks