Famous Quotes

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert 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 Joseph Joubert

• "Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them."

• "Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

• "The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

• "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

• "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."