Marriage Quote by John Berryman

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

— John Berryman

“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

— Beverley Nichols

“Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.”

— William Penn

“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my…

— A.J. Jacobs

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account…

— Virginia Woolf

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.”

— Robert James Waller

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a…

— Jane Austen