Quotes About Emotion

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I love to write poetry.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Poetry is fired by love.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.