Pleasure Quote by William Carlos Williams

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

— Samuel Johnson

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

— Shirley Hazzard

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

— Donald Hall

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

— Kenneth Slessor