Art Quote by J.T. Hunter

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

— William Shakespeare

“I sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright Who art cold as Hel, as dark as night”

— William Shakespeare

“This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false…

— Robyn Carr

“I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the…

— J.R.R.Tolkin

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…

— William Shakespear

“Shakespeare had nothing on you." "Would you rather I wrote you sonnets or made you see God?”

— N.M. Silber

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” From 100 Love Sonnets”

— Pablo Neruda

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

— William Shakespeare

“Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to…

— William Baldwin

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet