Poetry Quote by Hemingway Ernest

“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

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account of its…

— Frank Sargeson

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver