Famous Quotes

"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."

David Lee Roth 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 Lee Roth

• "You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound."

• "I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."

• "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

• "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."