Emotional Quote by Andrew Motion

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

— Mary Ruefle

You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of…

— Tony Harrison

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

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

— Charles Baxter

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— James Purdy

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions…

— Nina Jean Slack

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

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but…

— Frederick William Robertson

The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless…

— Jorge Luis Borges