Psychology Quote by Emily Eden

“A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called “a fearful gift.” The burden was…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

“It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.”

— Robert Galbraith

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.”

— Kathy Skaggs

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a…

— William Manchester

“Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had…

— Edith Wharton

“Rose is undistractable, indefatigable, a problem solver. Work is her essence, her animating spirit, and the core of her impact on me. Her dedication…

— Jon Katz

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and…

— Anne D. LeClaire