Injured Quote by Ovid

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that…

— Denise Duhamel

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

— Robert Bly

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

— Francis Quarles

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

— Vijay Seshadri

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to have suffered…

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

— Novalis

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

— Hortense Calisher

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