Compassion Quote by Zachary Schomburg

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

— Nikki Giovanni

“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts of readers.…

— LaTesha Monique

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book,…

— Nikki Giovanni

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)…

— Mary Oliver

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons…

— Aberjhani

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

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

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

— Andrew Motion