Art Quote by William Carlos Williams

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that…

— Sidney Lanier

“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But…

— D. H. Lawrence

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles…

— Manmohan Acharya

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to…

— W. S. Merwin

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not be the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“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