Heart Quote by W. H. Auden

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

— Mahmoud Darwish

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your…

— Walt Whitman

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up…

— Dorianne Laux

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very…

— Walt Whitman

Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can…

— Jack Abramoff

“Lord, we confess our numerous faults, How great our guilt has been! Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, And all our lives were…

— Isaac Watts

“To trust in you, Jesus—to boast in the gift of your righteousness, to rest in the constancy of your love, to wake up each…

— Scotty Smith

“There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in…

— Anne Brontë

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have…

— Heinrich Heine