Quotes About Emotion

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems