Famous Quotes by Elizabeth Jennings

There is no greater crime than betrayal by those meant to protect you.

Words have the power to heal the wounds of the world.

A poet sees the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Never to possess, therefore never lose – this is a creed of fire.

I have come into the hour of a white healing. Grief's surgery is over and I wear the scar of my remorse and of my feeling.

The most beautiful poetry is often hidden in the most difficult words.

A poem is a secret, something precious to be shared only when the heart is ready to reveal it.

Poetry is the language of emotions.

Since clarity suggests simplicity, and since the simple thing is here inapt, I choose obscurities of tongue and touch, the shadow side of language.

We give names – Autumn and summer, winter, spring – as though to unfasten from the mind our moods and give them outward forms.

Never to possess, therefore never lose – This is a creed of fire, the burning of excess, the cold ash of loss.

Poetry is a mirror that can help us look at our lives and see ourselves in all of our complexities.

The essence of poetry lies not in its form, but in its depth of meaning.

What makes a poem timeless is its ability to speak to the heart in all ages and places.

In the fragility of life lies the beauty of poetry.

Through poetry, we can glimpse the infiniteness of the universe.

It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery, white always and high.

I write because I must, because language can express what the heart feels and the mind understands.

To write is to make sense of what has no immediate logic, to find a rhythm in chaos.

The greatest poems are born out of vulnerability.

Insects move and men like insects. Why are we set here, frightened of our reflections?

The silence after a poem is often louder than the words themselves.