Atticus Quote by Atticus Poetry

“Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.”

— S. Tarr

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

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

— Aisha Mirza

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan