Famous Quotes

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

Albert Einstein 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 Albert Einstein

• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

• "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

• "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

• "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."

• "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."