Famous Quotes

"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."

Andres Segovia 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 Andres Segovia

• "Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."

• "The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."

• "Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."