Ashamed Quote by Tracy K. Smith

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Angela Suba Natarajan

“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

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

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

— Wajid Shaikh

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

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

— Sylvia Plath

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it…

— Balroop Singh

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot