Quotes About Hope

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

What happens to a dream deferred?

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

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

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

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

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

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

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

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.