Black hole Quote by Brittany Cavallaro

“Writing poetry felt silly, not practical. It was poetry. I wasn't exploring space here. But it felt necessary to me.”

— Anonymous

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“If you have to ask, what a poem is all about. You didn't feel it. ~ ”

— Lady Bug