Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.