Complicated Quote by Anne Stevenson

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and…

— Justin Adams

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“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 most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion;…

— Anonymous

There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts of readers.…

— LaTesha Monique

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

— Umberto Eco

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Werner Herzog