The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.138^40.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched with emotion.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, ch.1.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

-Barzun,Jacques
  Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Art, pt.3, ch.3.

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze† The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

-Boccioni, Umberto
 In the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture (11  Apr, Milan).

   They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.

-Brautigan, Richard
  On  Japanese poets.  June 30th^ June 30th.

   We donot expect peopletobe deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.20.

The emotion of art is impersonal.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Tradition and Individual Talent'.

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.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Tradition and Individual Talent'.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an'objective correlative'†such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Hamlet and His Problems'.

And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

Thetheme defeatsstructuralism, for it isanemotion.The theme of Lord of the Flies isgrief, sheer grief, grief, grief, grief.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  'Moving Target'.

Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.

-Hepworth, Dame Barbara
  Unit One.

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. SeeWordsworth 925:10.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
 Here Lies,'Sentiment'.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
Quoted in Patricia C Willis (ed) The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1986).

[There is] an undercurrent of emotion bred of the deep acquaintance that can take a landscape and its inhabitantsto be a vocabulary, a set of wordlesssymbols effortlessly shared.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  On the artist Edward Hopper. In theWashington Post, 25 Jun.

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

-Wordsworth,William
  Preface to Lyrical Ballads (2nd ed.1802; Lyrical Ballads first published1798, preface added1800, enlarged1802).