Famous Quotes

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson 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 Emily Dickinson

• "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

• "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

• "Where thou art, that is home."

• "Beauty is not caused. It is."

• "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."