Famous Quotes

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."

Niels Bohr 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 Niels Bohr

• "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

• "Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

• "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."

• "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

• "Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."