William Shakespeare Quotes

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I've always been into writing love songs.

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.