Age Quote by Boethius

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Anonymous

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and…

— Charles Baudelaire

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“No poetry lives which reflects only the cheerful emotions. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. We can bring harmony out…

— Leslie Stephen

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 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

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I…

— Anne Stevenson

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

— Richard Chenevix Trench