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Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best…

— Conor Oberst

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these…

— Sylvia Plath

“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

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

— Rhian Williams

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

I wrote a song for a girl once...she was there and her grandma and her mother was there...I made them all cry.

— Cody Simpson

“What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with…

— Garret Freymann-Weyr

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have…

— Louise Bogan