Humor Quote by Steve Kaplan

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...”

— Natasha Trethewey

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they’re not trying to be.”

— Lewis Morris

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

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

— Aldous Huxley

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das