Quotes About Emotions

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

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

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.