Heal Quote by Anonymous

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

— Novalis

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

— Harold Bloom

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by…

— Geoff Ryman

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective…

— Alok Mishra

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

— Thomas Hood

I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual…

— Steven Knight

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends…

— Thomas Paine

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster