Famous Quotes

"Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

Walter Scott 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 Walter Scott

• "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

• "Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

• "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

• "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

• "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."