Emotional Quote by Stephen Dobyns

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

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

— Angela Suba Natarajan

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

— Diane Ackerman

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

— Robert Hass

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

— Anne Stevenson

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

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

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic