Feels Quote by Hafez

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must…

— Anonymous

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

— Augustus William Hare

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

— Debasish Mridha

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of…

— Dylan Thomas

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an…

— Jean Paul

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle