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"Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."

Matthew Arnold 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 Matthew Arnold

• "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

• "Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."

• "To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."

• "Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge."

• "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."