Quotes About Emotion

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Poems are difficult to silence.