Famous Quotes

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."

John Keats 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 Keats

• "The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."

• "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

• "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

• "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

• "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."