Famous Quotes

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

David Hare 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 David Hare

• "Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

• "The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

• "Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity."