Quotes About Emotion

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

What can be explained is not poetry.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.