Chamber Quote by Adrienne Rich

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

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

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but…

— Robert Bringhurst

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

— C. K. Williams

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot