Defined Quote by Anne Stevenson

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with…

— Garret Freymann-Weyr

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry is not about how we feel, of course. It’s about how we feel about how we feel. Knowing how we feel about how…

— Adrian Blevins

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

— William Wordsworth

“Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.”

— Terry Eagleton

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

— Umberto Eco