Famous Quotes

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

• "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

• "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

• "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

• "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."