Famous Quotes

"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."

Jack Prelutsky 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 Jack Prelutsky

• "Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."

• "Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect."

• "We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine."

• "Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."

• "Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."