Imagination Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

— Madame de Stael

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Debasish Mridha

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings…

— Andrew Motion

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

— Samuel Prout

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

— Thomas Hardy

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when…

— Muriel Rukeyser

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

— Werner Herzog

“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It…

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Muriel Rukeyser