Poetry Quote by Colson Whitehead

“Poetry is a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons…

— Aberjhani

“Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.”

— Wesley McNair

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue…

— Jerry Sittser

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“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

“Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After”

— Colson Whitehead

“Writing and prayer are both hopeful leaps into the darkness.”

— Ed Cyzewski

“The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.”

— Jerry Sittser

“Prayer was not to be used just for emergency appeals; it was to be an unbroken conversation built around a living, loving fellowship with…

— John F. MacArthur Jr