Famous Quotes

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

Horace Walpole 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 Horace Walpole

• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

• "I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

• "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."