Famous Quotes

"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."

Robert Graves 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 Graves

• "What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."

• "Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued."

• "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

• "Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued."

• "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."