A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.