August Quote by Anonymous

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

“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

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to…

— Taylor Mali

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

— William Ellery Channing

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“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 poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

— May Sarton

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One…

— Knut Hamsun