Alive Quote by Robert Burns

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

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

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the…

— Anonymous

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

— Edith Sitwell

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.”

— S. Tarr

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.”

— Sinovuyo Nkonki

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy…

— Milan Kundera