Quotes About Emotion

My apologies to past loves for treating the latest as the first.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

This love is silent.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow

I see the eyes but not the tears This is my affliction.

I that was near your heart was removed therefrom

But that we had merely made use of each other Each for his purpose. That's horrible. Can we only love Something created by our own imagination?

mixing Memory and desire

Because the particular has no language. One thinks to escape

Poetry consists in so rendering concrete objects that the emotions produced by the objects shall arise in the reader….

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated?

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion. (Introduction to Pascal's Pensées)

I cannot feel that my appreciation of Milton leads anywhere outside of the mazes of sound.

Pain is the opposite of joy But joy is a kind of pain