Clinicals Quote by William Empson

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets but only…

— Osho

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love…

— Nick Cave

Poetry is fired by love.

— Erica Jong

“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

“The madness of love is ever delightful.”

— Publius Syrus

.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love.

— David Sedaris

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall…

— Stephane Mallarme

I have loved to the point of madness, That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way 2 love.

— Anonymous