Famous Quotes

"It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

Mary Gordon 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 Mary Gordon

• "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

• "We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."

• "One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss."

• "I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad."