Quotes About Fear

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

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.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

I miss you, I miss you at night, I can't sleep without you anymore, I'm scared. Meet me in heaven.

I am so brave with love and yet, so weak.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.