Famous Quotes

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

Ezra Pound 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 Ezra Pound

• "A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."

• "It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

• "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

• "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

• "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."