Despair Quote by Clint Smith

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

— Gregory Orr

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

A poem should not mean but be.

— Archibald MacLeish

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

— John Fuller

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the…

— Norman Mailer

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

Sad poems are necessary because sad things happen.

— Cameron J Martin