Famous Quotes

"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

Charles Olson 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 Charles Olson

• "This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

• "I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."