Despair Quote by Gregory Orr

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment…

— Samuel Johnson

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes of depression.…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

The poetry is myself.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken