Poetry Quote by William Carlos Williams

“not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.”

— Maya Angelou

“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly smile and…

— Eddy Toussaint

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a wildness of…

— Iain Pears

“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality.”

— Galatians

“... people really do take on the grime of their associations and actions. It was impregnated in this guy's cells. It never fails. What…

— Laurel Dewey

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love…

— Henry Miller

“Worry soils, even the purest mind. Envy poisons, even the purest heart. Greed sullies, even the purest soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and…

— Charlotte Bronte

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

“Soft, hence the blackheart under my sweet muse popular sentiments and blandishments mark your rather tranquil passions so living were you, so sure was…

— Clay Scott Brown