Famous Quotes

"It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?"

Robin Wright Penn 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 Robin Wright Penn

• "It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?"

• "Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."

• "If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."

• "If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."

• "It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."