"Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion."

— Victor Hugo

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

— Lord Byron

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

— Emile Zola

"I am going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are."

— Albert Camus

"The way you interpret emotions, as well as the blame game you engage in, creates suffering, not the emotions themselves. The mind in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven."

— John Milton

"The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak."

— Charlotte Bronte

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."

— T. S. Eliot

"Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity."

— William Shakespeare — T. S. Eliot