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"Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose."

Aung San Suu Kyi 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 Aung San Suu Kyi

• "Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age."

• "At this age, I should be leading a quiet life."

• "Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose."

• "I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own."

• "One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country."