Concrete Quote by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

— Umberto Eco

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel…

— Aaron Belz

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Sylvia Plath

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

— Anne Stevenson

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs