Famous Quotes

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."

Robert Staughton Lynd 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 Robert Staughton Lynd

• "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

• "Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

• "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

• "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

• "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."