Emotions Quote by Wajid Shaikh

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved…

— Nicole Lyons

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets,…

— Victoria Chang

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

— T. S. Eliot

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language…

— Stephen Burt

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi