Famous Quotes

"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."

Jacques Maritain 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 Jacques Maritain

• "A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."

• "Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."

• "Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."

• "The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."