Learning Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them,…

— Pythagoras

“The poem begins, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how it takes…

— Will Schwalbe

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

— Felix Dennis

Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating.

— Susan Montez

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

— Agathon

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is…

— Boethius

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a…

— Anonymous

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

— Ramana Maharshi

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

— Jon Anderson

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold