Famous Quotes

"The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair."

Jose Bergamin 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 Jose Bergamin

• "To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment."

• "Happiness is always a coincidence."

• "A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

• "To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom."