Contentment Quote by Denis de Rougemont

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

And the poets will tell you to do things with passion, do everything with passion-mediocre is your enemy...but what they forget to tell you…

— Kiki

“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets but only…

— Osho

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into…

— Criss Jami

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles…

— Manmohan Acharya