Quotes About Emotion

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

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

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.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Painting is silent poetry.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.