Famous Quotes

"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

Charlie Chaplin 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 Charlie Chaplin

• "Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."

• "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."

• "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

• "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."

• "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."