Anguish Quote by May Sarton

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

— Rita Dove

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way…

— Alex Lemon

“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

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

— James Broughton

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem -…

— Jimmy Carter

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort,…

— Jorie Graham

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

— Theodore Roethke

“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.”

— the mag man

I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood