Feelings Quote by Gary Snyder

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first word drifts…

— Linda Pastan

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

— Eugenio Montale

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

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

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

— Kevin Young

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne