Famous Quotes

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko 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 Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• "Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."

• "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

• "Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."