Famous Quotes

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."

John Cage 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 John Cage

• "We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."

• "The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."

• "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry."