Humans Quote by T. S. Eliot

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“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

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

poems are small moments of enlightenment

— Natalie Goldberg

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for…

— Norman MacCaig

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

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

— Wajid Shaikh

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon