Feelings Quote by T. S. Eliot

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

— Thom Gunn

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

— Tracy K. Smith

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my…

— Erica Jong

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark…

— Edward Hirsch

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”

— Laini Taylor

“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

You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you…

— Philip Levine

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

“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

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and…

— Nina Simone