Clarity Quote by Theresa Rough PhD

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca

“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the…

— Charles Bukowski

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza