Commit Quote by John Fowles

“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end…

— John Fowles

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

— Anne Sexton

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

— Roberto Bolano

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.”

— John Fowles

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

— Mark Strand

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

— Bishop Briggs

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon