Consolation Quote by Andrei Codrescu

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“Once upon a time There was a friend Who poured some ink To a pen, which had been dried up Since then There are…

— Shasika Amali Munasinghe

“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is dialogue with…

— Martin Buber

“...when the years have all passed, there will gape the uncomfortable and unpredictable dark void of death, and into this I shall at last…

— Rose Macaulay

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

“To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make comparisons…

— Victor Hugo

“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,—a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as a glimpse,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return”

— Michael Bassey Johnson