Quotes About Emotion

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

A photograph is memory in the raw.

One might as well try to photograph air as to say why one loves.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

Prose is too coarse, too heavy for romance — We need poetry for love & all things of chance.

Poetry is emotion put into measure.

It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness. It finds its thought and succeeds, or doesn't find it and comes to nothing.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion — a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.

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.

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

If a poet writes in gibberish, his soul yet understands.

Is there such a thing as pure unmingled poetry, poetry independent of meaning? Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry is an inky soulprint.

Poetry treks through our souls and tells us in rhyme of the adventure.

A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.

...the swirling autumn leaves of a poet's dying words...

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

A poem compresses much in a tight space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.

Emily Dickinson's poetry is life — blood — spirit. Her passion fills all the poems, till they are like alabaster filled with flame.

I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography

It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.