Famous Quotes

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

James Russell Lowell 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 James Russell Lowell

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

• "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."