Famous Quotes

"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

Wallace Stevens 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 Wallace Stevens

• "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

• "It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

• "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

• "I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."

• "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."