Famous Quotes

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."

Louis Kronenberger 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 Louis Kronenberger

• "Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

• "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

• "The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told."

• "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

• "Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."