Quotes About Emotion

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

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.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying