Angry Quote by Mary Oliver

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

— Sonia Orwell

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

— Voltaire

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible:…

— e. e. cummings

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording…

— Frances Ridley Havergal

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, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to…

— George Eliot

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

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

— Lisa See