Ideas Quote by Friedrich Schiller

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

— Mary Ruefle

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

— Robert Frost

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

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

— William Wordsworth

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

— Madame de Stael