Despondency Quote by William Wordsworth

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

— James Broughton

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy,…

— William Wordsworth

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

— Franklin P. Adams

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

— Ovid

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn…

— W. H. Auden

“No poetry lives which reflects only the cheerful emotions. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. We can bring harmony out…

— Leslie Stephen