the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.” — Patricia Geary Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories… — Bryan Hall Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I. — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset,… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit.… — Claudia Shear Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste, — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“The sky grows dark The Black over blue Yet the stars still dare To shine for you” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their… — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
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