Emotion Quote by John Ruskin

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney

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

— Debasish Mridha

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

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

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

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

— John Ciardi

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire