Quotes About Emotions

I do think that all of us think in poems.

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

I enjoy humor with a poignant touch.

My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don't know, boyish - it's all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.