Famous Quotes

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

Edgar Allan Poe 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 Edgar Allan Poe

• "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

• "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

• "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

• "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."

• "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"