Driven Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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

— William Wordsworth

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

— Ian Mcewan

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that…

— Masiela Lusha

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone…

— Jane Austen

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we…

— Anne Brontë