<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384308" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Art and Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,<br>It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over.<br>Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in Heaven will mind it,<br>And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.<br>Though perfect the player's touch, little, if any, he sways us,<br>Unless we feel his heart throb through the music he plays us.<br>Though the poet may spend his life in skilfully rounding a measure,<br>Unless he writes from a full, warm heart he gives us little pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it is not the speech which tells, but the impulse which goes with the saying;<br>And it is not the words of the prayer, but the yearning back of the praying.<br>It is not the artist's skill which into our soul comes stealing<br>With a joy that is almost pain, but it is the player's feeling.<br>And it is not the poet's song, though sweeter than sweet bells chiming,<br>Which thrills us through and through, but the heart which beats under the rhyming.<br>And therefore I say again, though I am art's own true lover,<br>That it is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384308" data-title="Art and Heart de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover, It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in Heaven will mind it, And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling beh..."></div> </div> </div>

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