Famous Quotes

"There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write."

Henry R. Luce 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 Henry R. Luce

• "Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."

• "Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."