Cures Quote by Randall Jarrell

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

— Alfred de Vigny

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.”

— Kiana Donae

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball…

— Thomas M. Disch