Famous Quotes

"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."

Gertrude Stein 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 Gertrude Stein

• "We are always the same age inside."

• "It is very easy to love alone."

• "When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

• "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

• "The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."