Quotes About Emotion

Poetry makes nothing happen.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.