Language Quote by Diane Ackerman

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

— William Wordsworth

“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 when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

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

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

— Debasish Mridha

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

— Werner Herzog

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important....”

— Angela Suba Natarajan

“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

“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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Carol Ann Duffy