Famous Quotes

"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."

Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Jose Ortega y Gasset

• "An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

• "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

• "Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

• "We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."

• "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."