Books Quote by Sue E Cidal

“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes of depression.…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

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

— Nicholas Trandahl

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

— Andrea Dworkin

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl…

— Edward Hirsch

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

— Woody Allen

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

— Carl Sandburg

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone…

— Franz Wright

“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that,…

— Elena Ferrante

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

— Edward Hirsch