Famous Quotes

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Don Marquis 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 Don Marquis

• "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

• "Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

• "Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."

• "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

• "Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."