Quotes About Emotion

Poetry can magnify experience.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

The union of a want and a sentiment.