Famous Quotes

"Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer."

Bette Midler 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 Bette Midler

• "After thirty, a body has a mind of its own."

• "I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession."

• "The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you."