Emotion Quote by Max Eastman

In poetry, only emotion endures.

— X. J. Kennedy

“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.”

— John Middleton Murry

A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too…

— Fernando Pessoa

“What a potpourri of emotions are mixed up in this one. Passion, heartache, exaltation, distress, fascination, anguish, enchantment, remorse, jubilation, defeatism”

— Karl Wiggins

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

— Anonymous

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

— George Edward Woodberry

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…

— Hans Hofmann

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Emotions are choices.

— Wayne Dyer