Books Quote by Philip Larkin

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

— Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too,…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Robert Frost

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

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

— William Wordsworth

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“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

“Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.”

— Terry Eagleton

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi