Choices Quote by Edward Hirsch

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

— John Ciardi

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet”

— John Ciardi

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

— Alejandra Pizarnik

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained…

— Amy Lowell

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

— Sandra Cisneros

“The poem begins, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how it takes…

— Will Schwalbe

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

“To write a poems needs a lot of pain to generate a little cure”

— Dwi Kuzuma

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the…

— Zachary Schomburg

“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”

— Wallace Stegner