Grief Quote by Edward Hirsch

“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And…

— Li-Young Lee

“I am thinking of Achilles’ grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told…

— Tobias Wolff

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

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

— bell hooks

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a…

— Marc-Andre Fleury

“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we…

— Anne Brontë

“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

Only poetry can address grief.

— Starhawk

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

— Rhian Williams