Quotes About Emotions

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Let yourself become living poetry.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.