Quotes About Emotions

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Only poetry can address grief.