Famous Quotes

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Jean Cocteau 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 Jean Cocteau

• "Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

• "An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."

• "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."

• "Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."

• "Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."