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“Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.” I looked up at…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“Listen to me, Monsieur Chaucer screwing La Princesse de Cléves . I hope he tears you to pieces and exposes you for the shallow,…

— André Aciman

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend, And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, Went walking with slow steps along the…

— W.B. Yeats

“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound My heart,…

— Anonymous

“At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue shall I address such majesty, seeing that all…

— Martin Luther

“Thus,’ he added with a sorrowful smile, ‘the opening of my heart proves, once more, a curse. Claiming those I care for, by virtue…

— Steven Erikson

“Lavender,' he commented, looking at the ribbons in her sleeve. 'The prince was tired, he said, of looking at so much black.' 'So am…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers… One…

— Knut Hamsun