Quote by John Keats

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

— John Keats

“No pain, no poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

“What is that old children’s rhyme, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’? Anyone who says that doesn’t…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

— Robert Bly

“We cannot heal the wounds we do not feel.”

— S.R. Smalley

“For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to…

— Joel Derfner

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I’m not the only kid who grew up this way surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones as…

— Shane Koyczan

“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong…

— Jane Austen

“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.”

— Sanober Khan