Famous Quotes

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost 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

• "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

  Khalil Gibran on Poetry

More quotes by Robert Frost

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

• "I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

• "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

• "The best way out is always through."

• "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."