Quotes About Emotion

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

There's no preparation for poetry.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.