Quotes About Emotion

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

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

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't 'soothe.'

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Music is poetry with personality.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!