Believe Quote by Stephen Chbosky

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

— Andrei Voznesensky

“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our ending My…

— Samantha King

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm…

— Howard Nemerov

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

— Theodore Roethke

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a…

— Hart Crane

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur