Famous Quotes

"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose."

Jerry B. Jenkins 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 Jerry B. Jenkins

• "Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."

• "Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too."

• "Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family."

• "I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same."

• "Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday."