Despair Quote by Isaac Rosenberg

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

— Anonymous

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

— Celeste Ng

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

“sad is the poem i will never write”

— Jeet how Romentic

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and…

— Bell Hooks

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

— Gregory Orr

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

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

— Robert Hass