Cry Quote by Conor Oberst

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its…

— Osip Mandelstam

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

— Sharon Olds

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?”

— Rhian Williams

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow…

— James Russell Lowell

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

“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

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

“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

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”

— bell hooks

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”

— Kellie Elmore