Quotes About Resilience

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

I sang in my chains like the sea

Poems are difficult to silence.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

A wounded dear leaps the highest