Famous Quotes

"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."

John Muir 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 Muir

• "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you."

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

• "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

• "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."