Felt Quote by Philip Levine

“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

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who…

— Gregory Orr

“If you have to ask, what a poem is all about. You didn't feel it. ~ ”

— Lady Bug

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible…

— Adelia Prado

“Poetry is not about how we feel, of course. It’s about how we feel about how we feel. Knowing how we feel about how…

— Adrian Blevins

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is…

— Tracy K. Smith

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You…

— Charlotte Eriksson

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says…

— Frank Skinner

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when…

— Muriel Rukeyser

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much…

— T. S. Eliot