Famous Quotes

"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."

Andre Gide 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 Andre Gide

• "It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

• "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."

• "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

• "Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

• "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."