Beggar Quote by Lady Gregory

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals, plants, chimeras,…

— Aleksander Wat

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I…

— Frank O'Hara

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized…

— Kathleen Norris

“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after pain.”

— Avijeet Das

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo