Composing Quote by Anna Akhmatova

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

— Ovid

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call…

— Anonymous

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.”

— Stephan Attia

“In the end, when life’s last flickers fade, all that remains is memory. Richness, in the final measure, is not weighed in gold coins,…

— R.A. Salvatore

“The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll…

— Rob Bell

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by…

— Maya Angelou

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot