Famous Quotes

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

Marianne Moore 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 Marianne Moore

• "Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."

• "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

• "Poetry is all nouns and verbs."

• "As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."