Emotion Quote by Gaston Bachelard

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

— Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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

— T. S. Eliot

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying…

— Rita Dove

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

— Jacob Burckhardt

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from…

— Anonymous

Our best history is still poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson