Fate Quote by Lord Byron

“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

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart