A-line-made-by-walking Quote by Sara Baume

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons…

— Aberjhani

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?”

— Rhian Williams

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from…

— Anonymous

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

“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