“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”– John Cage Related Quotes “I can’t remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that doesn’t healBut the words are forgottenSo is a big part of me”— A.A. Patawaran “Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”– William Blake “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”— William Wordsworth