Famous Quotes

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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 Edwin Hubbel Chapin

• "The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."

• "The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."

• "At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."

• "Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

• "Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."