Famous Quotes

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

Plutarch 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 Plutarch

• "The wildest colts make the best horses."

• "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better."

• "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

• "Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."