Famous Quotes

"God is the perfect poet."

Robert Browning 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 Robert Browning

• "What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

• "What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

• "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."

• "Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"

• "Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."