Feels Quote by Nina Simone

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

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

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

— Mary Oliver

It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort,…

— Jorie Graham

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because…

— Roger McGough

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

— Kiki Dimoula

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what…

— Marcus Mumford

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but…

— John Ashbery

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel…

— Aaron Belz

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak