"I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small."
"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"I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release."