Blood Quote by Anonymous

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“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

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold