Medicine Quote by Elizabeth Wein

“I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.”

— Rene Daumal

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.”

— José Gouveia

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Maybe I imagined it. Yes. Maybe”

— Tahereh Mafi

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.”

— Kenneth Koch

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t enough?”

— Brynn Kelly

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl