Famous Quotes

"In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn."

Lawrence Summers 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 Lawrence Summers

• "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."

• "You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government."

• "It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."