Poem Quote by William Carlos Williams

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

— Robert Frost

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

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

— Umberto Eco

“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

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

— Thomas Hardy

“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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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 rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

— Werner Herzog

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound