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Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

— Babette Deutsch

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

“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

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

— Andrea Gibson

In poetry, only emotion endures.

— X. J. Kennedy

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Sad poems are necessary because sad things happen.

— Cameron J Martin

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt