Feelings Quote by Terry Eagleton

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

— Umberto Eco

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— Debasish Mridha

“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

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— John Ciardi

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

“Every emotion, every feeling I have can be expressed with a word. But poetry isn’t just words muddled in a sentence. It gives us…

— Madeleine McEwen

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

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

“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