Ends Quote by James Broughton

We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.

— Anonymous

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

— William Wordsworth

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

— Clive Barker

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I…

— Anne Stevenson

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).”

— Anonymous

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn…

— W. H. Auden

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

— Wilfred Owen