Famous Quotes

"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."

Adrian Mitchell on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

  T. S. Eliot on Poetry

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

  Robert Frost on Poetry

• "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

More quotes by Adrian Mitchell

• "Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative."

• "Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry."

• "I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll."