Boredom Quote by Norman Mailer

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”

— bell hooks

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

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.”

— Deyth Banger

“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

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard