Feelings Quote by Jorie Graham

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

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 feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

— May Sarton

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

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

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of…

— Jim Carroll

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

— Rita Dove