Bible Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,

— Mahmoud Darwish

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance…

— Lawrence Joseph

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

— Stanley Kunitz

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is…

— Lee L Jampolsky

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the…

— bell hooks

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

“Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.”

— Lauren Oliver

“In resistance lies the key to life”

— Elif Shafak

“when Jesus tells His followers not to resist evil people, He uses a word that suggests a violent resistance. In fact, New Testament scholar…

— Preston Sprinkle

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

— Steven Pressfield