Emotion Quote by William Wordsworth

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 emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Debasish Mridha

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

— Robert Frost

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

— T. S. Eliot

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 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

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney

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