Emotion Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important…”

— Angela Suba Natarajan

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

— Robert Frost

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

— Anonymous

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

— Umberto Eco

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

— Nikki Giovanni

“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

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— Thomas Hardy

“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

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

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

— Terry Eagleton

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr