“People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.” PeoplePlayHandsWaterNumbersDarknessPoetLoversGray Author:Wolfgang Borchert
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.” ReligiousJusticeDarknessPoetCreaturesWoundsBillionsOne TimeDriftingReligious Experience Author:Graham Hawkes
“Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.” DarknessFirePoetTerribleJudgmentRiversPrisonTerrorVainSeatsRegionsFablesAgitate Author:Seneca the Younger
“Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.” WayWritingWellsDarknessPoetPushing Author:Anne Waldman