Feelings Quote by Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

— Oscar Wilde

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

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a…

— May Swenson

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche