Black Quote by Carl Sandburg

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that…

— Margaret Atwood

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

— Ann Demeulemeester

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

— Bishop Briggs

“He hope she'd find somebody who would text her love poetry in the middle of the night”

— Erin Lawless

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

— Pink

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

— Anne Sexton

Like your Mom was a Poet Girl? I see you take after her with your lyrics !!

— Glen Rambharack

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

“Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy, garment torn, singing a love song, glass in hand, picking a quarrel, chanting a spell, yesterday at…

— Anonymous

She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle.…

— Janet Fitch

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark…

— Joshua Homme