Famous Quotes

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

Manuel Puig 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 Manuel Puig

• "I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

• "I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

• "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

• "I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

• "I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."