Quotes About Healing

Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.

On Paper*some call it poetrybut it is just painon paper_____________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin

Blessed is the heart that does not collect resentments and often dwells on them.

Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.

Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.

To heal, love.To understand, feel.To let go, forgive.To care, be kind.

By forgiving we become free.

The cure for love is the love itself.

Always love your enemies. It will destroy them forever.

Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.

It's okay to remember, but it's also okay to forget too.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Let our scars fall in love.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.