Angst Quote by Delia Sherman

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents…

— Nancy Eimers

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out…

— Francesca Lia Block

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer…

— Michael Chabon

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is…

— Ellen Key

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

— Raymond Carver

I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression,…

— Mariama Bâ

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

— Robert Breault

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in…

— Honore de Balzac

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau