Quotes About Emotion

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.