Famous Quotes

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

Edward Young 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 Edward Young

• "By all means use some time to be alone."

• "Virtue alone has majesty in death."

• "Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

• "Virtue alone has majesty in death."

• "Less base the fear of death than fear of life."