Art Quote by Thomas Hardy

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

— Robert Frost

“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

“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

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

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts of readers.…

— LaTesha Monique

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing,…

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Umberto Eco

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

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

— Anne Hebert