Awake Quote by Richard Chenevix Trench

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become…

— Martin Prechtel

“No poetry lives which reflects only the cheerful emotions. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. We can bring harmony out…

— Leslie Stephen

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

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed on sorrow…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Anonymous

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I…

— Boethius

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

“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