Famous Quotes

"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."

John Donne 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 John Donne

• "God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

• "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

• "Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."

• "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

• "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."