Can not Quote by Paul Claudel

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

— Robert Frost

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

— Werner Herzog

In poetry, only emotion endures.

— X. J. Kennedy

“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It…

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion;…

— Anonymous

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

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

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every emotion, every feeling I have can be expressed with a word. But poetry isn’t just words muddled in a sentence. It gives us…

— Madeleine McEwen

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— William Wordsworth