Top 53 Quotes About Poetry And Emotion

#1. Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

C.S. Lewis

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#2. You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.

Kristina Haynes

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#3. Emotion is the poetry of life.

Marty Rubin

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#4. Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

John Dryden

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#5. Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Richard Galliano

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#6. A poem begins as an inner tune in the heart that beats with emotions and words waiting to be played with love.

Debasish Mridha

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#7. A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

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#8. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.

Debasish Mridha

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#9. Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

Pattiann Rogers

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#10. 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.

A.E. Housman

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#11. Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

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#12. Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

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#13. In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson

Eric Blehm

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#14. Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting

Edouard Vuillard

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#15. Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

Harley King

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#16. I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

Santosh Kalwar

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#17. You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?

LIZ

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#18. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

T. S. Eliot

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#19. Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling ... A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Muriel Rukeyser

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#20. Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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#21. The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

Louise Bogan

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#22. For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#23. Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

Donald Hall

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#24. Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.. We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

Arthur Ransome

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#25. Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Andrew Motion

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#26. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

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#27. Mislaid flame of tender emotions
Rekindled.
Together we live to the point of tears,
I wouldn't want it any other way.

Scott Hastie

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#28. I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized ... A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

William Carlos Williams

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#29. I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Zaeema J. Hussain

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#30. Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

Matthew Arnold

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#31. Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

F. Sionil Jose

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#32. In poetry, only emotion endures.

X.J. Kennedy

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#33. A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone.

Debasish Mridha

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#34. All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

T. E. Hulme

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#35. By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

Kobe Bryant

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#36. A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.

Debasish Mridha

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#37. A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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#38. Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,
Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,
Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,
Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

Jasper Fforde

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#39. In poetry if the emotion is lacking, everything is lacking.

Marty Rubin

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#40. What else is a poem about?
The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry ... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.

Garret Freymann-Weyr

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#41. They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn by any point, they quite naturally skidded along on a stagnent ground of poetry.

Jean Genet

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#42. If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Raymond Williams

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#43. What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Kiki Dimoula

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#44. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

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#45. I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

Marge Simon

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#46. Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

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#47. To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

Archibald MacLeish

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#48. Poetry expresses emotion. What does your inner poet convey?

Kym Gordon Moore

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#49. Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Carol Ann Duffy

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#50. But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.

Julie Anne Long

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#51. Chains
chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chains that tether my heart to you
chains that only one truth ...

Muse

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#52. Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance

Philip Larkin

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#53. In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Paul Claudel

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