Quotes About Emotion

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.