Famous Quotes

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks."

Edward Koch 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 Edward Koch

• "I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

• "The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

• "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks."

• "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it."

• "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it."