Bandages Quote by W. H. Auden

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

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

— Anonymous

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we…

— Anne Brontë

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

“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

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

— Aristotle

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

— Sandra Cisneros

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man

— Horace

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe