Acknowledge Quote by Andrew Motion

I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in…

— Nelson Algren

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

— Mary Ruefle

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

— Josh Radnor

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

— James Purdy

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are…

— Andrew Motion

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

— Norman Mailer

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to…

— Friedrich Schiller

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Edwin Morgan