Emotion Quote by William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Robert Frost

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

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

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Thomas Hardy

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 an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Philip Larkin

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

— John Ciardi

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but…

— Robert Bringhurst