Poetry Quote by Patricia Robin Woodruff — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“All dark, all bloody, my heart,”

“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people who need poetry, by a private anthology, both of those automatically absorbed and of poems consciously chosen and memorized as though one were stocking up for a desert island or for a stretch of solitary.”

“but from here on”

“Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames”