Quotes About Emotion

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

The poetry is myself.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.