Poetry Quote by Jane Austen

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

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

— D.A. Botta

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty dignity of…

— Nikolai Gogol

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

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.”

— Jane Austen

“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

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das