Poems for the Soul
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it begins as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
— Mary Oliver
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
— Robert Frost
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When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to other. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.
— Joy Harjo
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.