I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion… — Taylor Wilson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a… — Marin Hinkle Copy Share Image
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I have a love-hate relationship with New Orleans, which is the strongest sort of relationship. I've had some extraordinary, beautiful, poetic experiences… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him,… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
“As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“I knew that people said love should be unconditional, given like a dog gives to its master, but what Being could give… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. — John Locke Copy Share Image
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Is there a fire, to light up all my desires. I guess there's water though, to all the lemons I throw ,… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If I could show you how my heart is flowing with gratitude and love, I'd send you pictures, I swear.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet… — Arca Copy Share Image
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. +… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
