Pain and loss Quote by Josephine Humphreys

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“These are the moments of surprise and consecration that hold me forever in debt and bondage to the memories I bring to bear from…

— Pat Conroy

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories…

— Herbert Gold

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry…

— Edward Hirsch

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew