Fades Quote by Ian Mcewan

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

— William Wordsworth

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

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says…

— Frank Skinner

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

— Debasish Mridha

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

— Anonymous

Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

— Elizabeth Bowen

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

— Susan Howe

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we…

— Jorge Luis Borges