Aching-heart Quote by Anna Świrszczyńska

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

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

— Dwi Kuzuma

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

— Criss Jami

“She was so beautiful it made her teeth ache. He made a mental note not to attempt poetry.”

— Julia Quinn

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.”

— Kiana Donae

I've a poet's sensitivity.

— Dharmendra

“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”

— Dan Simmons

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

— Robert Bly

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.”

— Jason Blacker